The Phoenician city-states had limited agricultural land and an expanding population. Prosperity could be progressed by force or trade. They elected to trade.
The Hittites were expanding a kingdom to be ruled and profited from. The Phoenicians were forgetting ruling and its liabilities, and simply profiting from trade.
Sea trade.
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos - the Phoenicians prospered by overseas trade, which meant that they needed to be on the Mediterranean coastline.
Phoenicia was today's Lebanon, mountainous, which drew an expanding population to trade to support itself.
The Mediterranean Sea.
Religion, language, trade.
Through trade.
phoenicia grew wealthy because of its trade
No the first country to trade was a ancient place call phoenicia
of trading
Trade around the Mediterranean Sea and with Mesopotamia.
A series of independent city-states which prospered on trade.