The Phoenician traders settled around the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea since they were expert sailors. Some of the places they went to trade were Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, Crete, and Sicily. There is a possible chance that Phoenicians have come to America because historians discovered what they think is a Phoenician coin on a beach on the east coast of the United States.
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The Mediterranean littoral, Canary Islands, Azores.
traders and sailors
PHOENICIANS
The Phoenicians were a Semitic people that built a sea trading civilization in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea. By trading overseas, they developed colonies all over the Mediterranean Sea. They built a powerful commercial empire in North Africa called Carthage.
The Levant and Tunisia.