Trade.
The Phoenicians were a people who became prosperous through international trade.
PHOENICIANS
They bartered their product for goods they needed. - NovaNET
They were close to the seas, and farming was not an easy occupation at the time.
Through international trade, inventing astral navigation and inventing an alphabet to help communication and record keeping.
The Phoenicians are About 100 to 0BC
The Phoenicians' trading affected the world because they traded wine and with the trade of wine the knowledge of viticulture was taught as well. Some countires that had been taught the skill of viticulture still make wine fit for the international market today.
The Greeks, the British, the French, the Americans, the Chinese, The Phoenicians.
You must become a international layer first.
They had limited fertile soil and an expanding population, so they added trading to their income earnings.
They were not forced - they fould it was a great source of revenue and prosperity, and engaged in it very willingly for that reason.
The answer is of course the afro-Phoenicians were the Carthaginians, who were Phoenicians who established their city and trading empire in north Africa (in today's Tunisia).