The trade between Phoenicia and Egypt faltered due to several factors, including geopolitical shifts and the rise of competing powers. As new trade routes and empires emerged, such as the Assyrians and later the Persians, they disrupted the established economic relationships. Additionally, changes in demand for goods and resources, along with internal political instability in both regions, contributed to the decline of their trade partnership. These factors collectively diminished the once-thriving exchange of goods and ideas between Phoenicia and Egypt.
With Egypt and Phoenicia, and with the various peoples of Asia Minor and the Black Sea.
As far as maritime trade goes, the Lydian's traded with Egypt, Greece and Phoenicia. By land, they traded with Mesopotamia and Persia.
Carriage trade - shipping products between the places they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.
They were able to supply products which Egypt had no reliable supply of, such as timber. The Phoenicians also engaged in carriage trade around the Mediterranean, that is the not only traded their own produce but also carried trade goods between other regions as intermediaries.
Sea trade.
Carry trade - shipping goods and slaves between other peoples and raking off a profit.
Trade and commerce were key activities that began in ancient Rome, Egypt, and Phoenicia along the shores of the sea. These civilizations established thriving maritime economies, with extensive networks of ports and trade routes. They traded goods such as agricultural products, precious metals, textiles, and luxury items, which fueled their economic growth and cultural exchange with other regions.
With an expanding population and limited land to sustain it, they had to choose between conquering new territory (as the Greeks did) or trade. They chose trade.
Phoenicia was today's Lebanon, mountainous, which drew an expanding population to trade to support itself.
Religion, language, trade.
Through trade.
The Mediterranean Sea.