WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenicians and Greeks were the first of the Mediterranean sailors to navigate far from land and to sail at night. They made primitive charts and knew a crude form of dead reckoning. They used observations of the Sun and the North Star, or polestar, to determine directions.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was the most important thing the Phoenicians carried with them as they traded throughout the mediterranean? Their alphabet. How did the Hittites differ from the Phoenicians? The Hittites used their resources for war and conquest, whereas the Phoenicians used their natual and human resources towards trade.

Detailed explanation-3: -To expand in trading, the Phoenicians also built outposts that later became great cities in their own right. The most famous of these outposts was Carthage (located in modern-day Tunisia). Carthage eventually became wealthy and powerful enough to challenge the Roman Republic.