The first western society known to sail across oceans is a. the huns b. the athenians c. the phoenicians d. the macedonians

The  Phoenicians were first Western society known to sail across oceans.

Explanation:

Phoenicians are popularly termed as the greatest mariners of the ancient times. They were driven by their passion for obtaining foreign goods like silver, gold and various other commodities. These made them sail far and wide across various seas and oceans. They sailed to Spain to obtain silver, to Africa to obtain gold and so on and so forth.

They have been given credit to many important nautical innovations and are praised immensely as the masters of the seas.Their homeland being a mountainous region, it was easier for them to travel by sea and this was the reason they first took to sailing. Apart from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, the sailed to Red Sea and also probably to Indian Ocean.

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