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The Mediterranean Sea.
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What was Phoenicia great at?
Sea trade.
How did Phoenicia maintain control of the area throughout the Mediterranean region?
It developed a formidable war fleet to protect its expanding sea trade.
What made Phoenicia wealthy?
Trade around the Mediterranean Sea and with Mesopotamia.
How do you think Phoenicia's location helped them to control trade on the Mediterranean Sea?
In Lebanon and Syria, they had ready made seaports. Similarly when they colonised Carthage in Tunisia.
How did the Phoenicians control the sea far from Phoenicia?
They established war fleets.
What trade was Phoenicia well known for?
Carriage trade - shipping products between the places they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.
What did the Minoan's and the Mycenaean's trade?
With Egypt and Phoenicia, and with the various peoples of Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
How did tire a major city in a region called Phoenicia become a wealthy and thriving city?
Through sea trade.
Why did Phoenicia become a thriving and wealthy religion?
It was the main trader around the Mediterranean Sea.
Why dd Phoenicians choose the sea for trading?
phoenicians chose the sea for trading because phoenicia's overland trade routes were blocked by mountains and hostile neighbors.
Who called Phoenicia to Phoenicia?
Phoenicia derives from the ancient Greek word phoínios meaning "purple" - the colour of its popular dye made from sea snails.
Was phoenicia a flat land?
Phoenicia was today's Lebanon, mountainous, which drew an expanding population to trade to support itself.
