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Eighth Century BCE.
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What did the Greeks adopt to make writing easier?
They adapted the Phoenician alphabet.
What Phoenician achievements did the Greeks adopt?
The Greeks copied and adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own use.
What aspects of culture did the Greeks adopt from their trade partner the Phoenicians?
The Phoenician Alphabet
What alphabet did the Greeks adopt during the dark ages?
The Phoenician alphabet from which the Greeks developed a "true" alphabet, which consists of both vowels andconsonants.
Whom did the Ancient Greeks borrow their writing system?
From Phoenician alphabetic script, modified progressively to suit their own language pronunciations. Later 8th Century BCE.
Who did the Greeks adopt the alphabet from?
The modern English alphabet consists of 26 letters and is derived from the Latin alphabet:ANSWER:They did not actually invent it, but improved upon the ancient Phoenician alphabet and brought it into wider usage.
What influence did the Phoenicians play in the development of Greece?
The Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own communications.
What did the Phoenician alphabet do for the people in the ancient world?
It was copied and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, so becoming the basis of today's cursive writing.
Who taught the Greeks the alphabet?
a guy
What Phoenician invention did Greeks improve?
The alphabet
How are Phoenician alphabet and cuniform writing different?
By this time it consisted of about 700 symbol's that stood for words or syllable's about 1400b.c.,the Phoenicians had developed 22 simple characters for the entire writing system. Each character stood for a consonant.* Later,the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician alphabet.
What is the most contribution of the Phoenician?
The lasting one was developing a system of alphabetic writing which was adapted by the Greeks and Romans and forme the basis of todays Western alphabets.
