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They lived in Phoenicia.
The Phoenicians.
The Phoenicians luckly had CEDAR trees since Phoenicia was not very full of natural resources
They established war fleets.
The independent city-states of Phoenicia had their own kings.
The Persians conquered Phoenicia under Cyrus The Great, in 539 BCE.
Phoenicia was a major sea trading power.
Demand from other countries and the eagerness of the Phoenicians to trade.
The Phoenicians were a people who lived in independent city-states such as Tyre, Sidon and Carthage.
phoenicians chose the sea for trading because phoenicia's overland trade routes were blocked by mountains and hostile neighbors.
They wanted to expand. Once the Assyrian Empire invaded Phoenicia, the Phoenicians made it easy. They became brothers till this day. Assyrians and Maronites
Phoenicia was comprised of several independent city-states, each with its own armed forces.