Driven
by
their
desire
for
____________________
and
the
acquisition
of
such
commodities
as
silver
from
Spain
,
____________________
from
Africa
,
and
tin
from
the
Scilly
____________________
,
the
Phoenicians
____________________
far
and
wide
,
even
beyond
the
Mediterranean's
traditional
safe
limits
of
the
Pillars
of
Hercules
and
into
the
____________________
.
They
were
credited
with
many
important
____________________
inventions
and
firmly
established
a
reputation
as
the
greatest
____________________
in
the
ancient
world
.
Phoenician
____________________
were
represented
in
the
art
of
their
neighbours
,
and
their
seamanship
is
praised
above
all
other
by
such
ancient
writers
as
Homer
and
Herodotus
.
If
any
nation
could
claim
to
be
the
____________________
of
the
seas
,
it
was
the
____________________
.
