It enabled easier communication and record keeping.
It became the basis of Greek, Latin and today's alphabet. It replaces cumbersome and less accurate pictographic and syllabics writing forms.
Alphabetic.
Phoenician is an alphabet which forms syllables and words. Cuneiform is syllabic.
The writing messages
For communication and records.
Alphabetic writing.
About 3,000 years ago.
In the Levant.
They produced a variant on the Phoenician alphabet, which had pioneered cursive writing.
Phoenician writing was an alphabetic script, with one symbol representing one sound, while cuneiform was a complex script with many signs representing syllables, words, or concepts. Phoenician writing was more flexible and easier to learn compared to cuneiform.
The Phoenician trading ship spread their writing system around the Mediterranean Sea.
Trade and alphabetic writing.