It allowed then to communicate in writing far more easily than the pictograms previously in use.
The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
By producing a useful alphabet which is the basis of today's.
They did a lot! One invention is the alphabet. Many people think that the Greeks did that, but really the Phoenicians did, and later, the Greeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabet and changed it. That's the alphabet we use today!
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The Phoenicians invented the alphabet in the 1900's B.C.E.
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Traders and inventers of an alphabet.
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The current consensus is that the Greeks got the alphabet from the Phoenicians.