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Phoenicia was not an empire. It was a collection of independent city-states in today's Lebanon and Syria. As i dependent mini-states, they met the challenge of an expanding population by turning to trade rather than trying to conquer more land.

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A trading empire around the Mediterranean Sea littoral.

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