Answer:
D. the Mediterranean Sea
Explanation:
The Phoenician, land of sailors and merchants, occupied a narrow area, approximately 40 km wide, between the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of Lebanon. Currently this region corresponds to Lebanon and the part of Syria.
Phoenicia's mountainous soil was not conducive to agricultural and pastoral development. Living as if squeezed into their territory. The Phoenician people realized the need to go overboard and develop trade in the cities of the Mediterranean.
Among the factors that favored Phoenicia's commercial and maritime success, we can highlight that the region:
- It was very crossroads of trade routes, the natural outlet for trade caravans coming from Asia toward the Mediterranean;
- It was rich in cedars, which provided valuable timber for shipbuilding;
- It had good natural ports in its major cities (Ugarit, Byblos, Sidon, and Tire);
- It had beaches full of a mollusk, from which purple was extracted, dye red using for dyeing fabrics, much sought after among the elites of various regions of antiquity.
