Phoenicia was located in a narrow area on the Eastern Mediterranean. which obliged the population to open themselves towards the west.
Explanation:
- As they lived in a geographical hub, where political and cultural influences of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Crete were acquired, and where an important trade route flowed from Egypt by the coast to Kadesh in Syria, and thence from Aleppo to Karkemish on the Euphrates.
- Large-scale trade began to develop on it. Such land configuration also led to the development of small-town states, militarily weak and politically insecure, but commercially strong.
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