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.
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.
They spread the alphabet they invented with trading and taught other cultures how to trade.
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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.
The Phoenicians were from the Levant, not Mesopotamia. They passed on their alphabet.
The Phoenicians.
By producing a useful alphabet which is the basis of today's.
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.
Well Phoenicians spread in their trade was an alphabet.. While on the other hand Assyrians built the greatest empire the world had ever seen :)
They were sea traders, and were able to introduce their alphabet to the peoples they traded with around the Mediterranean Sea.
The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
They spread the alphabet they invented with trading and taught other cultures how to trade.
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.
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!
Their trade and their alphabet writing simplified written communication.
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their alphabet