Phoenicia

The were farmers, fishermen, craftsmen, dyers, weavers, timber workers, shipbuilders, sailors, traders, administrators and soldiers/marines.

I am not very sure, but I think the Egyptians did have economy based on a division of social classes because they had different classes so they probably had different economy.

Independent city-states with a common culture.

They were good and adventurous sailors and good successful traders.

Grains, bread, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit.

It's because it made writing easier.

Phoenicia was centered on the coastline on Lebanon on the more western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent. Major Phoenicia cities stretched the coastline of the Mediterranean reaching as far as the Western Mediterranean.

The Phoenicians had settled in a land that had limited,but very important,resources.

They established trading stations around the Mediterranean Sea littoral. Two of these grew into city-states - Carthage and New Carthage.

Phoenician - 22 letters, no vowels; Greek 16 letters including vowels.

Foodstuffs, timber, metals, dyes, gems.

There were many, each with a special sphere of interest. The principal one were:

Adonis, Anath, Asherah, Astarte, Baal; Kathirat, Kothar, Hasism, Melkart, Mot, Tanit, Yamm, Yarikh

The high god was Baal.

The extension of Egypt into the Middle East did not reach that far as it was halted by the southward move of the Hittites. The inconclusive battle of Megiddo in 1482 BCE, claimed as a victory for Egypt's Thutmose III, nevertheless drew a line beyond which Egypt was unable to establish permanent control of Phoenicia, whose independent city-states continued on for nearly another thousand years until brought under control of the Assyrian, then Persian empires.

The Phoenicians discovered that crushed shellfish( the specific shellfish is the murex) oozed a fabulous wine-colored goop. Cloth soaked in this substance turned shades ranging from deep pink to rich purple. Royalty soon chose purple as their favorite hue, so every king and queen needed purple dye!

They were masters of the trade in the Mediterranean Basin and they invented the ancestor of all the present-day Indo-European languages.

the introduction of indo aryans languages to Europe

First they learnt to cross open sea as opposed to coastline hopping, maintainng a course and using night and day by the wind direction. Then they used the polar star as a guide for long distance travel.

Their own country, based on the narrow flood plains of their riversystem, surrounded by desert, was short on timber of their own.

The Greeks based their alphabet on the Phoenician one, however they look rather different and the number of letters is different. The similarity is using letter symbols to denote sounds and facilitate reading.

Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon and Tartus Governorate in Syria.

Their homeland was unable to sustain a growing population, so they turned to trade rather than conquest, and the trading stations gave them firm and protected operating bases in their main trading areas.

We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone. Also they show the other countries that ships could travel around the globe trading important commodities. Phoenician mariners sailed to Mediterranean and southwestern European ports. The Phoenicians were the great merchants of ancient times. They sold rich treasures from many lands.

Raising a family, housekeeping and tending the family food garden.

A Phoenician sea trader would have needed sailing skill, navigational skill, defensive ability, business acumen.