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.
About 3,000 years ago.
Alphabetic writing.
For communication and records.
In the Levant.
The writing messages
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.
Alphabetical writing.