The medes and the chaldeans
learn to read and write
The Phoenician people in the 9th Century BCE.
It was spread through trade with foreign people.
West Semitic people from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean (where Phoenician and Hebrew groups lived) are usually credited with developing the world's first alphabet.
The Ancient Egyptians created a 24 consonant alphabet by 2700 BCE.
It hasn't. There is no record of any written interaction between the two people prior to the 16th Century.
Write words.
It gave them an accurate and economical means of communicating and keeping records.
The Phoenician people in the 9th Century BCE.
There is no ancient people that did this. While the Phoenicians developed an alphabet that gave rise to Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, the Phoenician alphabet is not still in use today.
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon and Tartus Governorate in Syria. The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1200 BCE, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and it was perhaps the first alphabetic script to be wide used. Phoenician spread around the Mediterranean, particularly to Tunisia, southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula which is the modern Spain, Portugal, Malta, southern France and Sicily, and was spoken until the 1st century AD. Historians do not speak on how the language made what easy in the least part.
It was copied and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, so becoming the basis of today's cursive writing.
Traders took the alphabet with them to pass on to other people.
It's because it made writing easier.
It combined to provide accurate sounds for simpler communication, as compared to the inaccurate and unwieldy syllabic scripts and pictograms.
It facilitated written communication and record keeping.
The Hebrews were the first to adapt the Phoenician alphabet for the Hebrew language.