Farming land, a defensively walled city, a port for trade, and a trading fleet.
Polisπόλις
farming
citystate
Not all of the Israelite tribes, but some of them engaged in fishing and sea-trade, as did the Phoenicians.
they grew corn
Socrates was from the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece.
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Their alphabet and astral navigation.
Cedar, perfumes, dyes.
All 16 were different.
The Phoenicians are About 100 to 0BC
The Phoenicians did not die out although many died due to the Byzantine empire that came and killed many of them. Phoenicians never left Lebanon they stayed in the Mountains and are still Phoenicians in modern day. note i just copied this off some one Else's that was exactly the same question and if you looked around you would of found it.