9/17- started presenting presentations
- Phoenicians
- Created the first phonetic alphabet
- All modern languages are based off of this- Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Greek
- Canaanites move to Canaan
- Conquered by Cyrus the Breat
- Persians divided into four kingdoms- influence declined
- Coastline of Mediterranean Sea and backed by mountains
- Used to trade
- It is now Syria, Lebanon and northern Israel
- Elevation and land
- different parts used for plants, animals
- Hottest part was down south
- Showers of rain
- Breeze from mountains- helped plants and animals
- Mediterranean Sea
- One of the biggest trading cities
- Ships couldn't get through because of mountains
- How did these help them?
- Living near the sea, bordering with sea, connecting with sea
- Advanced and superior boats
- Known for ships for trading
- cargo and trade holding boats
- Ships
- Horse figure
- Horse head to honor Yamm, the god of sea for Phoenicians- used to ram into other boats
- Traded with many surrounding cities
- Trading ships
- round ships and huge storage ships
- War ships
- Two sails to hide officers
- Forecastle for bowmen
- Rostrumm to ram other ships
- Horse figure
- Trade
- Along the coast of Africa, and up to ancient Britain
- Mountains
- Used defense system
- Trees
- Cedar trees
- Fir forests
- Cedars were tall and packed with trees
- Men did the active and physical jobs
- Women were forced into doing the jobs men didn't want to do
- Good at glass-making
- Used a lot of purple dye which they used for dying the robes- purple dye showed royalty and rich
- Related to Arabs
- They were run by a king- City Council helped the king
- Traded slaves, glass, wood
- Farmed olives, grapes, wheat
- Bred cattle
- Many wealthy families and could supprt themselves
- Advancements
- First ones to use purple dyes
- Used the ocean to their advantage
- Started the rist alphabet
9/18- finished pheonician presentations
9/19- Harapan presentation
- Harappans
- Lived close to rivers
- provided fish and water
- Lived in Bronze age
- Made shields, swords, spearheads
- Located along the Indus River in present day Pakistan and Northwest India
- Floods destroyed the area of Harappans
- Well known for their impressive, organized and regular layout
- One of the most important characteristics of the civilization was trade
- area based off trade
- high quality and profitable
- produced cotton and subsistence for wheat of barley
- traded to Mesopotamia to China
- Walked by the rivers
- Farmers brought food into the city
- City workers made pots, cotton cloth, and beads
- Traders brought material in and shipped them out
- Surrounded by mountains and rivers
- Peaceful civilization
- Nearly all houses had indoor plumbing with showers and toilets
- Lived close to rivers
9/20-
- Babylonians
- Flat land with 2 rivers
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Mountain appears in North and East
- Today part of Iraq and Syria
- Merchants and traders passing through
- Largest and most powerful city at the time
- Climate
- hot and dry
- winter was cold and wet
- spring- rivers overflowed flooding plains
- Abundance in crops- barly and sesame
- Grazing land for sheep,, goats, and cattle
- Clay formed into brick and writing tablets
- Advances
- Metal working
- Glassmaking
- Food control
- Textile weaving
- Water storage and irrigation
- Weapons
- Steady environment and taxes collected
- Hammurabi code
- The river was the only way to travel
- Flat land with 2 rivers
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