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What effect did their sea trade have on the Phoenicians alphabet?
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The Phoenician traders spread the alphabet through the Mediterranean Sea. It was taken up by the Greeks and adapted as their own alphabet, and they spread this to their own colonies.
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Which Iron Age sea-faring people created a non-pictographic alphabet?
The Phoenicians were the Iron Age sea-faring people who created a non-pictographic alphabet.
Why would journeys of the Phoenicians prove to be so important?
The Phoenicians traveled and traded throughout the civilized Mediterranean Sea. As they dealt with many different peoples who spoke many different languages it was difficult to communicate. The Phoenicians developed an alphabet developing the first written language to record their trades. It is disputed that they invented the alphabet but they did spread it's use throughout the civilized area they traded in. Other people such as the Greeks took this alphabet and improved it for further use. The widespread area where the Phoenicians traveled gives them credit for invention of the first alphabet. They traded everywhere that there were people they could trade with.
Who did the Phoenicians trade with?
Around the Mediterranean Sea littoral, and as far afield as Cornwall and the Canary Islands.
How did the Minoans and Phoenicians influence the cultures surrounding the Mediterranean Sea?
They established sea trade routes, which helped in the spread of ideas and goods
Did the Phoenicians developed the alphabet?
We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone.
How did the Phoenicians alphabet spread?
They were sea traders, and were able to introduce their alphabet to the peoples they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.
Who did the greeks learn the alphabet from?
sea-fairing phoenicians
What are the trade routes of the Phoenicians?
Throughout the Mediterranean Sea.
Which Iron Age sea-faring people created a non-pictographic alphabet?
The Phoenicians were the Iron Age sea-faring people who created a non-pictographic alphabet.
Who were the people who developed the arts of sailing and sea trade?
Phoenicians
Why did the Phoenicians the sea for trade?
The Phoenicians use the sea for trade because the alternative - slow 1 ton carts was impossibly over distances greater than 60 km, and their trade distances were in 1,000s of km.
Was the most important achievement of the Phoenicians the creation of large sea-faring vessels?
The vessels facilitated their trade and hence wealth, but their alphabet fathered the Greek and Roman alphabets, and so our alphabets of today.
What does the Phoenicians have to do in the Alphabet?
We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone.
Who first used the ocean for transportation and trade?
The Cretans or Phoenicians used the Mediterranean Sea for trade
What sea did the Phoenicians trade in?
Mediterranean Sea, however they went as far as the English Channel for tin.
Why would journeys of the Phoenicians prove to be so important?
The Phoenicians traveled and traded throughout the civilized Mediterranean Sea. As they dealt with many different peoples who spoke many different languages it was difficult to communicate. The Phoenicians developed an alphabet developing the first written language to record their trades. It is disputed that they invented the alphabet but they did spread it's use throughout the civilized area they traded in. Other people such as the Greeks took this alphabet and improved it for further use. The widespread area where the Phoenicians traveled gives them credit for invention of the first alphabet. They traded everywhere that there were people they could trade with.
Why dd Phoenicians choose the sea for trading?
phoenicians chose the sea for trading because phoenicia's overland trade routes were blocked by mountains and hostile neighbors.
