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The Cayman Islands is currently a colony/territory of England, therefore it is dependent.
This question is presumed to mean what country has rule over the Cayman Islands. This has been Great Britain since 1670, when it became a British territory.
Mainly by fishing and sea trade.
they became wealthy through trade
The Cape Verde Islands became independent from the U.K in 1975. They are officially recognised as a country in their own right.
Florence became wealthy from trading cloth, mostly wool.
It began it evolution to Statehood in 1959 as a group of feudal islands under the leadership of a variety of Chiefs that was unified by Kamehameha the Great in 1810 as the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Monarchy was overthrown and the Hawaian Islands became a Republic controlled by wealthy American Plantation owners and eventually it became the Territory of Hawaii in 1898.
Merchants
Phoenicia was not a religion. It was a series of independent city-states which became prosperous by trading around the Mediterranean, going as far afield as Britain and the Canary Islands.