Near East Contributions
Phoenicians and Israelites
Government
Economics
Culture
King
Lumber
Alphabet
Single ruler of a
civilization
Wood used for making
many products
Twenty-two written letters
used for keeping business
records
Ships & Sailors
Phoenicians
Ships able to travel on
the ocean
Dye
Knowledge and skill to
change the color of
cloth
Merchants
Professional traders
Navigation with
Maps
Israelites
Skills at reading maps
and the stars to plot
course
Laws
Monotheism
The Ten
Commandments
directed behavior
Belief in a single supreme
deity
King
Jewish religion with priests,
prophets, and the Torah
Single Ruler: Saul,
David, Solomon
Judaism
Religious Text
The Torah, writings about
the history and beliefs of the
religion, written in Hebrew
Prophets
Religious leaders
Hebrew
Language of the Israelites