Answer:
Phoenicia relied on imports and exports because of its geographic position, which lacked the access to farmlands but had easy access to the sea and therefore all the important maritime trade routes of that time.
Step-by-step explanation:
Phoenicia was a thalassocracy, or an empire at sea, and had a network of merchant cities mostly all over the north of the Mediterranean Sea, split in two with the Greeks, who dominated the southern half. Historians generally believe that it was located on the coastal areas of where Lebanon is today.