Their city-states in the Levant and Carthage in North Africa and New Carthage in Spain..
YES
silver, tin, and copper
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos.
Imports - foodstuffs, hides, agricultural produce. Exports - timber, dyes, glass, metals, slaves.
Tyre, Sidon, Carthage.
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The high point of Phoenician culture and sea power is usually placed ca. 1200-800 BC.
sailing skills
A Phoenician sea trader would have needed sailing skill, navigational skill, defensive ability, business acumen.
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Phoenician!
No one. Their power was in trading and protecting that trade. They substituted purchasing power and direct profit for the effort and the problems of conquest and ruling to get the benefits.