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With Egypt and Phoenicia, and with the various peoples of Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
As far as maritime trade goes, the Lydian's traded with Egypt, Greece and Phoenicia. By land, they traded with Mesopotamia and Persia.
Carriage trade - shipping products between the places they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.
Sea trade.
They were able to supply products which Egypt had no reliable supply of, such as timber. The Phoenicians also engaged in carriage trade around the Mediterranean, that is the not only traded their own produce but also carried trade goods between other regions as intermediaries.
Carry trade - shipping goods and slaves between other peoples and raking off a profit.
With an expanding population and limited land to sustain it, they had to choose between conquering new territory (as the Greeks did) or trade. They chose trade.
Trade and commerce were key activities that began in ancient Rome, Egypt, and Phoenicia along the shores of the sea. These civilizations established thriving maritime economies, with extensive networks of ports and trade routes. They traded goods such as agricultural products, precious metals, textiles, and luxury items, which fueled their economic growth and cultural exchange with other regions.
Phoenicia was today's Lebanon, mountainous, which drew an expanding population to trade to support itself.
Through trade.
Religion, language, trade.
The Mediterranean Sea.