Download The Phoenicians, Hebrews, and ancient Greeks.

By : Israel Davila
 The Phoenicians were a people who occupied the coast
of the Levant (eastern Mediterranean).
 What the Phoenicians actually called themselves is
unknown, though it may have been the ancient term
Canaanite.
 Phoenician religion was
inspired by the powers and
processes of nature. Many
of the gods they worshiped,
however, were localized and
are now known only under
their local names. A
pantheon was presided over
by the father of the gods, but
a goddess was the principal
figure in the Phoenician
pantheon
 The Phoenicians worshipped
a triad of deities, each having
different names and
attributes depending upon
the city in which they were
worshipped, although their
basic nature remained the
same.
 The Phoenicians; explorers, traders and
inventors of the alphabet.
 The Phoenician economy was built on timber
sales, wood working, and cloth dyeing.
 Gradually the Phoenician city-states became
centers of maritime trade and manufacturing.
alphabet
 The Phoenicians are
most often credited with
having invented the
basic alphabet around
1200 B.C., but their
exact role in its creation
is under debate.
glass
 Though glass had been accidentally
discovered and used 1000 years prior by the
ancient Egyptians, the Phoenicians were
the first to deliberately make glass on a
regular basis out of sand, limestone and
sodium carbonate, molding the material
according to their needs. They shaped molten
glass until it hardened and cooled. This
discovery took place around 1500 B.C.; the
Phoenicians were generous with their
knowledge and helped to spread it to Egypt.
 Hebrew, any member of an ancient northern
Semitic people that were the ancestors of the
Jews.
 These people are referred to as Israelites until
their return from the Babylonian Exile in the
late 6th century B.C.E., from which time on
they became known as Jews.
 Judaism is the religion, philosophy and way of
life of the Jewish people.
 Judaism is a monotheistic religion, with the
Torah as its foundational text, and supplemental
oral tradition represented by later texts such as
the Mishnah and the Talmud.
 Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be
the expression of the covenantal relationship God
established with the Children of Israel.
 The Hebrews had an agricultural based
economy where live-stock, fruits and
vegetables were the main source of income.
Other such goods as ceramics and jewelry
that were locally produced by local merchants
as well as exotics from the orient were
exchanged, as Israel was along one of the
ancient world's most important trade route.
 Ancient Greece was a Greek
civilization belonging to a period
of Greek history that lasted from
the Archaic period of the 8th to
6th centuries BC to the end of
antiquity.
 Greek religion (alternatively Hellenism)
encompasses the collection of beliefs and
rituals practiced in ancient Greece in the
form of both popular public religion and
cult practices.
 The religious practices of the Greeks
extended beyond mainland Greece, to the
islands and coasts of Ionia in Asia Minor,
to Magna Graecia (Sicily and southern
Italy), and to scattered Greek colonies in
the Western Mediterranean, such as
Massalia (Marseille). Greek religion was
tempered by Etruscan cult and belief to
form much of the later Ancient Roman
religion.
 The economy of ancient Greece was
characterized by the extreme importance
of importing goods, all the more so
because of the relative poverty of Greece's
soil. Beginning in the 6th century BC,
craftsmanship and commerce developed
and became increasingly more important
in the classical period.
 Sheep and goats were the most common
types of livestock. Woods were heavily
exploited, first for domestic use and
eventually to build triremes. Bees were
kept to produce honey, the only source of
sugar known to the ancient Greeks.
 Greek architects provided some of the
finest and most distinctive buildings in
the entire Ancient World and some of
their structures, such as temples, theatres,
and stadia, would become staple features
of towns and cities from antiquity
onwards. In addition, the Greek concern
with simplicity, proportion, perspective,
and harmony in their buildings would go
on to greatly influence architects in the
Roman world and provide the foundation
for the classical architectural orders
which would dominate the western
world from the Renaissance to the present
day.
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