Phoenicians
Phoenician
yes
In ancient times, the Phoenician people.
How do you think the ancient world would have been different if the Phoenicians had not been such good sailors and traders? What if they had not started colonies around the Mediterranean? How do you think other civilizations have developed differently without their influence?
No, the Phoenicians were sailors and traders long before the Hebrews.
Many ancient Greeks became traders because unless you were rich or a slave there was no other job opportunity and sailors because their lives were dependent and surrounded by the sea and so this was an expected career for them.
Because 1/5 of the land was only good for farming.
Phoenicia .
Farmers, tradesmen, fishermen, traders, soldiers, sailors. Then there were household and farm slaves, a third of the population.
traders and sailors
The Phoenicians were the group that lived in Canaan; skilled sailors and traders were among them.
The Polynesians and Phoenicians .