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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.
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How did the Phoenician economy depend on trade?
The Phoenician city-states had limited agricultural land to support a growing population. They had to expand by conquest or trade. They chose trade.
Who did the Phoenician conquer to gain power?
No one. Their power was in trading and protecting that trade. They substituted purchasing power and direct profit for the effort and the problems of conquest and ruling to get the benefits.
What was the source of Phoenician wealth?
Trade.
What did the Phoenician alphabet and the trade have in common?
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
How did the Phoenician alphabet trade?
It was spread through trade with foreign people.
What is the relationship between the trade and the spread of the Phoenician alphabet?
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
What made certain Phoenician textiles unique?
First, the opted for trade rather than conquest to solve a population crisis; then their inventiveness - astral navigation, seamanship, inventing alphabetic writing.
Which happened earlier the formation of Sargon's empire or the beginning of Phoenician trade?
The formation of Sargon's empire occurred earlier than the beginning of Phoenician trade. Sargon of Akkad established his empire around 2334 BCE, while the Phoenician trade network began to develop significantly later, around 1200 BCE. Thus, Sargon's empire predates the rise of Phoenician trade by over a thousand years.
How did geography affect the phoenician?
Located on the Mediterranean Sea, it led them to sea trade.
What sea was dominated by Phoenician trade?
The Mediterranean Sea.
What trade goods were the Phoenician's known?
they trade silver work ivory carving and slaves
What other aspects made Phoenician trade significant?
It developed from trading Phoenician goods int carriage trade - that is shipping locally-produced goods between other centres.
