How did the Phoenicians create a weathy trading society?

Answer 1

We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone. Also they show the other countries that ships could travel around the globe trading important commodities. Phoenician mariners sailed to Mediterranean and southwestern European ports. The Phoenicians were the great merchants of ancient times. They sold rich treasures from many lands.

Answer 2

By farming their land.

By producing goods and trading them - cedar and pine wood, fine linen, purple cloth.

By transit trade - buying products and reselling them to other regions - manufactured goods of Egypt and Babylonia, spices and incense from the Arabian trade route.

Answer 3

From trade - exporting its own products and shipping the products of other land between them.

Answer 4

By creating fleets of trading ships and carrying goods between other areas as intermediary traders (carriage trade), and establishing trading stations in those areas as bases.

Answer 5

From trade - first exports, then the carry-trade - carrying goods between other locations.

Answer 6

By trade.

Answer 7

Yes.