Chapter 14 Ancient Greece – Developing your understanding

Developing your understanding 14.1

1 Identify two influences of the Phoenicians on Greek culture.

2 Identify two types of writing that have been found on Crete.

3 What problems with these currently limit our knowledge of the Minoan culture?

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Chapter 14 Ancient Greece – Developing your understandingSource 14.2 Map showing Greek and Phoenician trade routes, principal commodities and colonies

4 Examine the map in Source 14.2, and answer the following questions:

a Which island provided the most likelihood of the Greeks and Phoenicians coming

into contact? Why?

b List four commodities that were traded.

Source 14.3 The Phoenician alphabet, including the sound and corresponding modern letter. Note that aleph and ayin were sounds made at the back of the throat, similar to modern Middle Eastern languages.

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Chapter 14 Ancient Greece – Developing your understanding

5 Study the information in Source 14.3 and answer the following questions:

a How many letters were in the Phoenician alphabet?

b What letters in our alphabet do not appear in this ancient one?

6 What were two differences between Mycenaean culture and Minoan culture?

Source 14.4 Gold funeral mask, also known as the Agamemnon Mask’, found in Tomb V, Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann

7 Why might Heinrich Schliemann have decided to call Source 14.4 the ‘Agamemnon

Mask’?

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