1. SEAFERING TRADERS
ASSESSMENT
Social Studies
Chapter 3 – Lesson 3

2. TERMS AND NAMES
• Minoans: seafaring and trading people
that lived on the island of Crete from about
2000 to 1400 BC.

3. Aegean Sea:
Body of water located at the Mediterranean Sea.

4. Knossos
• The Minoan capital city.

5. King Minos
• A king who owned a Minotaur.

6. Phoenicians
• Powerful seafaring people of Sowthwesst Asia, who
around 1100 BC began to trade and established
colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.

7. ACHIEVEMENTS
MINOANS PHOENICIANS
Traders City-states
Bull leapers Dye
Pottery Aphabet

8. 2. Which of these achievements do you
think was the most important? Why?
• Alphabet because of far reaching consequences.

9. 3. What did the excavations at Knossos
reveal about Minoan culture?
• It was an advanced, thriving or prosperous culture.

10. 4. Where did the Phoenicians settle and
trade?
• Around the Mediterranean.

11. 5.Why did the Phoenicians develop a writing
system?
• To keep business.

12. 6. What might have caused the collapse of
the Phoenician culture?
• Overpopulation, natural disaster, invaders.

13. 7. What were some similarities between the
Minoans and the Phoenicians in terms of
trade?
• Both traded in the Mediterranean, exchanging goods and
new ideas.

14. 8. What words in Herodotus account of a
voyage around Africa show doubt? Why?
• “Some may believe, though I do not” such a trip has
never been done before.

15. 9. Do you think it would made sense that the
Phoenicians city states to cooperate instead
of compete? Explain.
• Cooperation, by pooling resources for greater
profitablility.
• Compete, by keeping traders on their toes, making them
better merchants.