With limited land and a burgeoning population they had to either conquer more land or trade. They chose trade.
They were close to the seas, and farming was not an easy occupation at the time.
traders and sailors
Traders.
Traders and inventers of an alphabet.
Phoenicians
The Phoenicians?
The Phoenicians become the greatest traders and the best sailors and navigators of the pre-classical world. They only shipped certain goods and became the only traders in those goods that gave them a monopoly in some areas.
They were not forced - they fould it was a great source of revenue and prosperity, and engaged in it very willingly for that reason.
Phoenicians
No, the Phoenicians were sailors and traders long before the Hebrews.
(APEX) The Phoenicians were traders who traveled all over the region.
Phoenicians were great sailors, mariners, navigators, traders. They virtually invented the idea of "ocean shipping".