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The Phoenicians.
It had a great trading empire in the Western Mediterranean.
It established a great trading empire in the Western Mediterranean.
It was the main trader around the Mediterranean Sea.
Yes, they elected to expand by trade rather than conquest, and extended their trade around the Mediterranean, and to the Canary Islands and Cornwall.
It built a great trading empire.
the roman empire
A great trading empire
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Pershing was a US general. If you mean Persians, they dominated the eastern (not western) part Mediterranean on its Asian shores and Egypt until the conquest of their empire by Alexander the Great. Their dominance was replaced by that of the Greek-dominated Hellenistic States: the Kingdom of Pergamon, the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
The Kush Empire was a great empire because it was a continuation of the kingdom of Egypt, and it established important trading cities.
The city state of Carthage had an advanced commercial empire that dominated commercial shipping throughout the Mediterranean Sea. Their sophisticated transport vessels and a powerful naval fleet protected their trading empire. Carthage was known for expanding into the Atlantic Ocean to trade with peoples on the coast of Atlantic Africa and along the northern European coastlines that also led to what is now the island of Great Britain.