They traded mostly purple dye called Tyrian purple which was very expensive and only royalty could afford it. The dye was extracted from a certain type of sea mollusk.
Sea trade.
Phoenicia was today's Lebanon, mountainous, which drew an expanding population to trade to support itself.
Religion, language, trade.
Through trade.
The Mediterranean Sea.
phoenicia grew wealthy because of its trade
No the first country to trade was a ancient place call phoenicia
Trade around the Mediterranean Sea and with Mesopotamia.
of trading
A series of independent city-states which prospered on 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.
Its limited agricultural land and burgeoning population meant that it had to expand - by conquest or trade. They chose trade.