To communicate and keep records.
Astral navigation; an alphabet.
The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
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No - they copied theirs from the Phoenicians.
They did a lot! One invention is the alphabet. Many people think that the Greeks did that, but really the Phoenicians did, and later, the Greeks adopted the Phoenicians alphabet and changed it. That's the alphabet we use today!
The Greeks did not invent the alphabet. The alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians; the Greeks merely adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.The Phoenician alphabet was originally a syllabary, but because of sound changes in the language it evolved into an alphabet.
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They were the first to develop alphabet-based writing, much simpler than the writing systems developed so far.
Their trading empire and their innovations -an alphabet and astral navigation.
The Phoenicians invented the alphabet in the 1900's B.C.E.
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