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They went by ship and established trading bases. These extended around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and as far as Cornwall (in Brittan - for tin). This included (modern names) Cyprus, Italy, Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, England, Iraq.
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Why did Phoenicians establish colonies along the Mediterranean coast?
they wanted to make trading post
Why reason Phoenicians establish colonies along the Mediterranean Sea?
They established trading stations rather than colonies, to promote their carry-trade activity.
Why would the Phoenicians need to establish colonies in far-away lands?
They were trading stations - as great traders, the Phoenician need local bases to carry out this trade and protect it.
The Phoenicians did not established trading colonies where?
In most of the world - just around the Mediterranean.
How did establishing colonies help the Phoenicians?
The 'colonies' they established were in fact trading stations. This allowed them to trade extensively in local produce and cross-trade between areas as well as just in their own produce of timber, food and dyes. The exception was their colony Carthage, which grew in strength to establish its own trading colonies in the western Mediterranean.
Why did the Phoenicians colonies never United because?
Except for Carthage, they were trading colonies, operated by the trading city-states of Phoenicia, which were themselves independent of each other.
What culture is most closely associated with trading colonies in other continents that border the mediterranean sea?
Phoenicians
Why did the Phoenicians build colonies all over the mediterranean sea?
They were trading colonies as bases for their trading activity around the Mediterranean.
What culture is most closely associated with seafaring trading and established colonies on other continents that border the Mediterranean Sea?
Phoenicians
Why do you think the Phoenicians built colonies all around the Mediterranean?
Their homeland was unable to sustain a growing population, so they turned to trade rather than conquest, and the trading stations gave them firm and protected operating bases in their main trading areas.
the Phoenicians established trading colonies in all of the following places except a Sicily c Crete b Sardinia d Malta?
answer is C.Crete
What were the Phoenicians known as?
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people that built a sea trading civilization in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. By trading overseas, they developed colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea. They built a powerful commercial empire in North Africa called Carthage.
