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Without a currency, payment is made in goods (including precious metals) and services. A currency can save lugging wagonloads and shiploads of goods around unnecessarily. Trade was a principal activity for the Phoenician cities, so currency served them well.
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∙ 10y agoThey traded widely around the Mediterranean and beyond as well as at home. While exchange of good was effective, With the small ships of the time, and acting as intermediaries in carriage trade between countries, currency was a convenient way for minimising carriage of goods, particularly perishables and damageables, as well as being abl to be more explicit about the value of gods.
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What ancient peoples developed an alphabet?
The Phoenicians
What civilization developed the 22 character alphabet?
Phoenician civilization
Did the Phoenicians develop a writing system before or after the Sumerians?
The Phoenicians developed their writing system from the Sumerian writing system in 1400 BCE, so their writing system came after the Sumerian one.
Which best explains the dissatisfaction of the merchant class with the Articles of Confederation?
There was no provision for a uniform currency.
Which carriers of civilization developed an alphabet and a trading network?
The Phoenicians were the carriers of civilization who developed an alphabet, as well as a trading network. Their written alphabet is the ancestor of the Greek and Roman alphabets.
Who developed the first alphbet?
The Phoenicians developed the first alphabet
What ancient peoples developed an alphabet?
The Phoenicians
Explain how the Phoenicians were an example of cultural diffusion?
The Phoenicians developed the alphabet and used coin money(:
What civilization developed an alphabet that gave rise to the Hebrew Greek and Latin alphabets?
The Phoenicians
What was developed by the Phoenicians?
Trade, an alphabet and astral navigation.
Who developed a money economy the Phoenicians or the lydians?
Lydians
The Phoenicians developed an alphabet using only what?
Consonants.
The phoenecians developed a style of writing based on?
the Phoenicians developed a style of writing based on
What is a legacy of the Phoenicians?
Our alphabets today were developed from the Phoenician alphabet.
What is Legacy of the Phoenicians?
Our alphabets today were developed from the Phoenician alphabet.
Who were the people who developed the arts of sailing and sea trade?
Phoenicians
What civilization developed the 22 character alphabet?
Phoenician civilization
