Geography
Besides being close to the sea, this geographic feature made it difficult for the Phoenicians to farm.
What are the mountains?
In the Phoenician alphabet each symbol stood for this.
A strip of land surrounded on 3 sides by water
What is a peninsula?
Importing and exporting among the many trading posts set up along the Mediterranean represent this part of SPRITE.
What is Economic?
These people became sailors and traded great distances from Britain and all along the Mediterranean Sea.
Who are the Phoenicians?
Because the islands of Greece were isolated, they developed many independent ___________.
What are city-states?
This was the most important Phoenician trading post.
What is Carthage?
A series of complex passages like a maze
What is a labyrinth?
City-states and colonies are part of this section of SPRITE.
What is Political?
This is how many letters or symbols there were in the Phoenician alphabet.
What are 22?
These two areas of the Mediterranean coasts were easiest for the people of ancient Greece to connect with.
What are the southern and eastern Mediterranean coasts?
This was brought back from Italy and traded along the Mediterranean region.
What is glass?
This purple dye showed status and wealth.
What is Tyrian (tyre)?
The Greek system of weights, measures, alphabet and art represent this part of SPRITE.
What is Intellectual?
The area in present day Turkey between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea is called this.
What is Asia Minor?
Because of the geography of Greece the sailors landed, people settled and then the Greek government controlled many of these across the Mediterranean.
What are colonies?
This metal was traded brought back to the Mediterranean by the Phoenicians from Britain.
What is tin?
colorful water color paintings create on buildings throughout Greece
What are frescoes?
The Minotaur was half bull, half man, part of Greek mythology including many gods and goddesses, this part of SPRITE.
What is Religion?
the city in Crete that was home to an amazing Minoan palace
What is Knossos?
These are two important uses of the sea for the ancient Greeks.
What are food and trade?
The Phoenicians rose as a superpower after these two ancient Greek groups fell.
Who were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
a type of physical map that shows land elevations (I used to use this type of map when I went hiking)
What is topographic?
The labyrinth in the palace in Knossos is an example of this aspect of SPRITE.
What is Technological?
The 300 years after the Mycenaeans were invaded by the Dorians, (after 1100 BCE) were known as this.
What were the Greek Dark Ages?