Cedar and pine timber, cloth, purple dye, salt, dried fish, wine.
The Phonecians
They moved trade goods, protected by effective war fleets.
Timber, dyes, foodstuffs, minerals, jewels.
Their trading ability and the ability to ship goods for trade.
As an easier means of exchange than trade goods.
It was a container for their wet and dry goods - for home consumption and for trade.
After initially trading their own goods, they spread into carriage trade, moving others' goods between them and taking a profit on the deal. Therefore they would trade anything, including animals.
They moved from trading their own limited goods to the carriage trade - moving other peoples' goods between them and taking a profit from it.
Timber, dyes, minerals. Their real success is that they diversified into carriage trade - carrying goods and slaves between other locations and creaming off the profit.
They had two types of trade: their own produce - timber, foodstuffs, dyes carry-trade - buying from other areas and onselling the produce - foodsuffs, metals, gems, manufactured goods. They used ships to move the trade goods.
The Phoenicians had goods which Egypt wanted - timber, foodstuffs, purple dye, minerals, and had a trading fleet to transport it to them. Phoenicia was also in the carriage-trade business, able to take Egyptian goods far afield around the Mediterranean Sea, giving Egypt extra outlets for its own goods.
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