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.
The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
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The answer is of course the afro-Phoenicians were the Carthaginians, who were Phoenicians who established their city and trading empire in north Africa (in today's Tunisia).
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The Phoenicians were the ancient people who originated in Lebanon. It was the Phoenicians who founded the city of Carthage and the Carthaginian empire.
A trading empire around the Mediterranean.
For most of their early history the Phoenicians were independent. Then they came under the Seleucid Empire, a Greek state and then the Romans.
There was no Phoenician Empire - the Phoenicians were established in a series of independent city-states.
They were absorbed into the Persian Empire in the east, and Carthage was absorbed into the Roman Empire in the west.