Canaan

Was a region in the Ancient Near East in the late 2nd Millennium BC.The word Canaan appears throughout the bible it is by far the most frequently ethnic term used in the bible.

The name "Canaanites" is attested, many centuries later, as the endonym of the people later known to the Ancient Greeks from c. 500 BC as Phoenicians,^[5] and after the emigration of Canaanite-speakers to Carthage (founded in the 9th century BC), was also used as a self-designation by the Punics (chanani) of North Africa during Late Antiquity.

Purple cloth became a renowned Canaanite export commodity which is mentioned in Exodus. The dyes may have been named after their place of origin. The name 'Phoenicia' is connected with the Greek word for "purple",

The Proto-Canaanites migrated into the Levant starting in 4500 BC.They pioneered the Mediterranean agricultural system typical of the Canaanite region, which comprised intensive subsistence horticulture, extensive grain growing, commercial wine and olive cultivation and transhumance pastoralism. They lived in small villages, mining and manufacturing copper. The Proto-Canaanites became Canaanites circa 3800 BC

In Early Bronze Age other sites developed such as Ebla which by 2300 BC was incorporated into the Mesopotamia based Akkadian Empire of Sargon the Great and Naram-Sin of Akkad