Show origin of commerce commerce the international traffic in roods goods as distinct from domestic traffic vias as undoubtedly originated by the little people known in history as the phoenicians Phoenicia ns the yankees of antiquity the phoenicians Phoenicia ns A traded etli various peoples long before the other nations had crossed their respective frontiers all along the holes of the mediterranean and up tip the coast or of the atlantic as far north 1101 in a aa the british isles their ships veru nere to lie be found leading their manufactures fac tures and wonderful dyes and bring ing in back to tyre tin wood and such other articles as tides as paid them to deal in dealing creating tile the merchant marine so long ago that tant history gives us no account of it ft the phoenicians Phoenicia ns and their colonists the held it until it passed on to greece grece ani ami rome home and later along to the republics publics le of modern italy |