WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -They built commercial colonies in Rhodes, Cyprus, Sicily, Sardinia, Spain, and north Africa. This gave them a network of ports in the Mediterranean. There’s also evidence that they ventured far west to what is now Spain and beyond to the Atlantic coast of Africa.

Detailed explanation-2: -As early as 1200 BC, the Phoenicians built large merchant ships. During the Bronze Age, they developed the keel.

Detailed explanation-3: -A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as the Phoenicians created the foundation for the modern English alphabet and other alphabets. They organized a system of 22 consonants into what became the alphabet used not only by English speakers, but by speakers of many of the world’s languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -Phoenician colonies The Phoenicians were the major trading power in the Mediterranean in the early part of the first millennium BC. They had trading contacts in Egypt and Greece, and established colonies as far west as modern Spain, at Gadir (modern Cádiz), and modern Morocco, at Tingis and Mogador.