The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Phoenician traders took their alphabet with them and it was adopted and adapted.
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
It was spread through trade with foreign people.
Each had its role in building up the Phoenician trading empire.
There was no direct relationship. Alphabetic writing facilitated communication, and so aided their trade expansion.
The Phoenician Alphabet
The dyes were prized trade goods. Th alphabet enabled them to communicate between cities, ships and trading stations in a pre-electronic era.
As the Phoenician city-states traded around the Mediterranean littoral, and used their writing for communication and record keeping, other peoples they traded with saw its benefits and adopted it.
As the Phoenician city-states traded around the Mediterranean littoral, and used their writing for communication and record keeping, other peoples they traded with saw its benefits and adopted it.
It was both a means of communication and record keeping.
For communicationg in a pre-radio era and record keeping.
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.