Geography ensure that the people of the phoenician empire would be
a)traders b) conquerors c)scribes d)farmers

   A) Traders

Explanation:  The Phoenicians were known as successful merchants and then shipbuilders and sailors. All this was possible thanks to their geographical position on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, today's Lebanon. On the one hand, the availability of goods from Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, and on the other hand, the possibility of trade by sea via the Mediterranean and further even to the Atlantic. This has contributed to develop shipbuilding in order to operate faster and easier and develop a network of maritime trading routes.

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