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The ancient mercantile civilization of Phoenicia helped to spread civilization in ancient times primarily through its daring, far-ranging seafaring voyages. Motivated by trading interests above all, yet perhaps also spurred on by the desire to explore for its own sake, Phoenician traders were for many generations the "go-betweens" of older civilizations in the east and newer, rougher societies elsewhere in the Mediterranean and beyond. They carried trade goods, yet at the same time they carried technologies, ideas, and values from one point to another.

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Who spread the alphabet as they went on trading ventures?

The Phoenicians.


How did the Phoenicians help spread civilization by?

By producing a useful alphabet which is the basis of today's.


What effect did their sea trade have on the Phoenicians alphabet?

The Phoenician traders spread the alphabet through the Mediterranean Sea. It was taken up by the Greeks and adapted as their own alphabet, and they spread this to their own colonies.


What was different about the way Phoenicians and Assyrians spread their civilizations?

Well Phoenicians spread in their trade was an alphabet.. While on the other hand Assyrians built the greatest empire the world had ever seen :)


How did the Phoenicians alphabet spread?

They were sea traders, and were able to introduce their alphabet to the peoples they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.


What was the contribution of Phoenician alphabet to Hebrew?

The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.


How did the Phoenicians influence their world by trading?

They spread the alphabet they invented with trading and taught other cultures how to trade.


Who developed the first alphabet?

It is generally held to be the invention of a Semitic people in the middle east about 1800 B.C. It was spread by the Phoenicians and the Greek alphabet was derived from it.


What did the Phoenicians do?

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!


What are two things the Phoenicians were able to spread because their sailing skills?

Their trade and their alphabet writing simplified written communication.


What Phoenician inventions did the Greeks improve?

the alphabet


What were the Phoenicians known?

their alphabet