It was a trading empire.
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The Persians absorbed the Phoenicians into their empire, and used their resources.
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The Phoenicians
The Phoenicians
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).
The Phoenicians
A great trading empire
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.