Timber, dyes, foodstuffs, minerals, jewels.
The Phoenicians were a people who became prosperous through international trade.
Timber, dyes, minerals. Their real success is that they diversified into carriage trade - carrying goods and slaves between other locations and creaming off the profit.
For consumption and trade.
For consumption or carry-trade.
to travel and trade goods
To use and consume the products, and use the slaves. However the trade they profited most from was the carriage trade - taking goods and slaves between other places and making a handsome profit on the resale transaction.
To use in daily life, and for trade.
The Phoenicians use the sea for trade because the alternative - slow 1 ton carts was impossibly over distances greater than 60 km, and their trade distances were in 1,000s of km.
because mountains there were mountains to the east and north
They imported commodities which they needed in addition to what they could produce themselves, such as metal, jewellery, spices, different foodstuffs and timbers, and in addition the bolstered their prosperity by carry-trade - moving good between trading partners for profit as well as their own exports of timber, dyes and manufactured goods..
The Phoenicians use the sea for trade because the alternative - slow 1 ton carts was impossibly over distances greater than 60 km, and their trade distances were in 1,000s of km.
The first people to use sailboats are said to be Egyptians and Phoenicians by using a piece of cloth on a long log. They were used later on extensively in the Mediteranean Sea to trade, and even later in the Indian Ocean trade network.