The Phoenicians use the sea for trade because the alternative - slow 1 ton carts was impossibly over distances greater than 60 km, and their trade distances were in 1,000s of km.
Throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
Phoenicians
The Cretans or Phoenicians used the Mediterranean Sea for trade
Mediterranean Sea, however they went as far as the English Channel for tin.
phoenicians chose the sea for trading because phoenicia's overland trade routes were blocked by mountains and hostile neighbors.
Not all of the Israelite tribes, but some of them engaged in fishing and sea-trade, as did the Phoenicians.
To the peoples around the Mediterranean Sea.
They moved trade goods, protected by effective war fleets.
because mountains there were mountains to the east and north
With an expanding population, they had to gain more resources - by conquest or trade. They chose trade.
Around the Mediterranean Sea littoral, and as far afield as Cornwall and the Canary Islands.
Phoenicians were known for their maritime trade culture living in the east coast of Mediterranean Sea where today the states of Syria, Lebanon and Israel/ Palestine are.