Geography ensure that the people of the phoenician empire would be

Traders.

Explanation:

The Phoenician's closeness to the Mediterranean allowed them to create a trading empire that by the 9th century BCE had become one of the largest of the ancient world. Since they were located on a small coastal area of the Levant, they applied their extraordinary seafaring skills to create a network of colonies and trade stations over the Mediterranean. Their main trade routes were Greece, southern Europe, the Atlantic coast of Africa, and Britain. Furthermore, Arabia and India were contacted through the Red Sea, and Western Asia was connected by land routes.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

the emancipation proclamation was the aim of the war change to include the freeing of slaves in addition to preserving the union. the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery in the u.s. was passed on december 6th 1865.

as promised, lincoln waited to unveil the proclamation until he could do so with success from the union military advance. on september 22nd 1862, after a victory at antietam, he publicly announced a preliminary emancipation proclamation, declaring all slaves free in the rebellious states as of january 1st 1863.