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How are ideas spread today?
Without those things, how would they have
been spread in ancient times?
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Traders, sailors, ship builders, and skilled
navigators
Set up trading posts across the Mediterranean.
Cultural diffusion throughout the
Mediterranean world
Traded cloth, gold, cedar wood, glass, and
purple dye
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What is a status symbol?
What are some examples of status
symbols today?
Why are those things status symbols?
As a status symbol, how could purple
dye make the Phoenicians
prosperous?
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Biggest contribution of the Phoenicians was
their alphabet
Not based on pictures like cuneiform and
hieroglyphics
Alphabet based on sound
Greeks adopted some parts of the alphabet and
is the basis for our own
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What vocabulary term is this an example of?
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Complete the Writing Systems Graphic
Organizer in Notability
Hieroglyphics
 Alphabet
 Cuneiform
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Founded by Abraham
believes in one God – “Yahweh”-MONOTHEISM
Leaves Mesopotamia to –Canaan –Egypt-Canaan.
Went to Egypt b/c of drought – enslaved – later
fled in Exodus – led by Moses.
Travel across Sinai Peninsula- receives 10
commandments.
A “covenant relationship” between God and the
Hebrew people
God promised the people the Promised Land, a
land of their own
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Law of the Hebrews
Set high standard for moral conduct.
Other laws added- could be strict but merciful.
Regulated social and religious behavior
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Judaism predates Christianity – it is the foundation
of Christianity but is not a part of it
Jesus was Jewish
Jews do not believe that Jesus was anything more
than a good and wise man who lived and died
2000 years ago – Jews still wait for their messiah
The Jewish messiah would not be divine. He
would be a political figure who restores the
Hebrew monarchy and causes peace to reign on
Earth
Torah – 1st five books of Hebrew bible. – give
history and laws.
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Persian religion
Monotheistic
Believe in angels and
demons
Created by Zoroaster
Ahura Mazda is the
god worshipped
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In groups
Use Notability
Complete the chart for YOUR ASSIGNED
RELIGION ONLY
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Transfer your information from the chart for
YOUR ASSIGNED RELIGION to a piece of
colored paper
BE CREATIVE
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PICTURES/COLOR/NEATNESS
Put everyone’s name on it
Turn in on the front table
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Schoology
Answer the questions
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I have, who has
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Add Monotheism and Phoenicia to your
Keynote Scrapbook
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2 different slides
Pictures and Captions
Include for the
Phoenicians:
• Alphabet
• Shipbuilding
• Sea Trade
• Purple Dye
Include for
Monotheism:
• Abraham
• Monotheism
• Zoroastrianism
• Hebrews
• Yahweh
• Torah