People
No, the Phoenicians were sailors and traders long before the Hebrews.
traders and sailors
The Phoenicians were the group that lived in Canaan; skilled sailors and traders were among them.
Phoenicians
Phoenician
yes
In ancient times, the Phoenician people.
They instituted alphabetic writing, and were very prominent traders and sailors.
Many ancient Greeks became traders because unless you were rich or a slave there was no other job opportunity and sailors because their lives were dependent and surrounded by the sea and so this was an expected career for them.
traders,merchants, farmers,brewers,sailors,innkeepers
They were close to the seas, and farming was not an easy occupation at the time.