WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenicians were hard working, industrious, and keenly intelligent and skilled shipbuilders and navigators. They soon learned that although their geographical area was not wealthy in many natural resources, they could trade their precious timber and dyed cloth for the riches that lay beyond the seas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main natural resources of the Phoenician cities in the eastern Mediterranean were the prized cedars of Lebanon and murex shells used to make the purple dye. Phoenician artisans were skilled in wood, ivory, and metalworking, as well as textile production.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because they didn’t have much room for growing crops, the ancient Phoenicians turned to the Mediterranean Sea and became traders instead of farmers. They created glassware from the sand along the coast to trade for things they needed.