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With the great empires gone, Phoenician cities like Tyre and Sidon seized the moment and became the Mediterranean's dominant maritime traders.
The Phoenicians filled the commercial vacuum left by the Bronze Age Collapse. Operating from their narrow coastal strip in modern Lebanon, they built a trading network that would eventually span the entire Mediterranean. Their ships carried cedar wood, purple dye, glass, and metalwork to ports from Cyprus to Spain.
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