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What did the Phoenician alphabet do for the people in the ancient world?
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It was copied and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, so becoming the basis of today's cursive writing.
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What did the Phoenician alphabet make it easier for people in ancient world to do?
Write words.
What did the Phoenician alphabet do for people in the ancient world?
It gave them an accurate and economical means of communicating and keeping records.
The phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to do what?
The medes and the chaldeans
How did the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the ancient world?
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
Who developed the world's first alphabet?
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.
Which Phoenician invention influenced the western world?
We derive our alphabet from them
What did the Phoenician alphabet make easier for people in the ancient world?
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.
How does the Phoenician alphabet influence the world in the future?
The letter in the Phonecian alphabet were the base upon which the Greek alphabet was built. From the greek alphabet, the roman alphabet was formed. The ancient roman alphabet are the letters used in Latin, and all of the Romance languages (English, Frensh, Spanish, Italian, ect.) '
What are sailors and traders of the ancient world called?
Phoenician
What is the phoenician alphabet?
It is the first alphabet, adopted and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, and is the basis of our alphabet today. It took hold because it gave an accurate and economical alternative to the cumbersome pictograms and syllabic writings which it replaced.
What does The Cuneiform writing and Babylonian numbers and Phoenician alphabet have in common?
they both leaders and rule the world
What is one of the Phoenicians most important ideas?
Principally the alphabetic way of writing.
