They were close to the seas, and farming was not an easy occupation at the time.
traders and sailors
The Phoenicians are best remembered for having invented the phonetic alphabet, from which all modern phonetic alphabets are derived (including the one with which I am typing this answer). In addition they were accomplished traders and sailors.
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people that built a sea trading civilization in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. By trading overseas, they developed colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea. They built a powerful commercial empire in North Africa called Carthage.
The Phoenician traders settled around the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea since they were expert sailors. Some of the places they went to trade were Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, Crete, and Sicily. There is a possible chance that Phoenicians have come to America because historians discovered what they think is a Phoenician coin on a beach on the east coast of the United States.
PHOENICIANS
traders and sailors
No, the Phoenicians were sailors and traders long before the Hebrews.
Phoenicians
The Phoenicians were the group that lived in Canaan; skilled sailors and traders were among them.
Phoenicians were great sailors, mariners, navigators, traders. They virtually invented the idea of "ocean shipping".
They were farmers who became traders. As their population grew larger then the land they held in the Levant could support, they had the choice of conquering more land to farm, or trading. They selected the latter.
yes
The were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, dyers, weavers, timber workers, shipbuilders, sailors, traders, administrators and soldiers/marines.
The Phoenicians are best remembered for having invented the phonetic alphabet, from which all modern phonetic alphabets are derived (including the one with which I am typing this answer). In addition they were accomplished traders and sailors.
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?
traders,merchants, farmers,brewers,sailors,innkeepers
The Israelites weren't known as mariners or traders; mostly farmers. The Phoenicians were the traders around the Mediterranean Sea.