Phoenicia

It made their trading fleet and was an export commodity.

they would use there own alphabet and make words like we do but it was very different

The Phoenicians first traded their surplus produce, then moved on to add the 'carriage trade'. shipping other peoples' produce for them, having developed a cargo fleet and warships to protect their sea trading.

they told stories of monsters and because of the rare purple dye they found

They looked for a better means of written communication and record keeping than the existing hieroglyphs and syllabic writing systems.

It was not the mother of all languages - it was a means of writing language down. Most languages have nothing to do with Phoenician, it was their writing system.

The Phoenician alphabet was adopted and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, from which many languages of the world have based their own alphabets. Of course, some peoples (eg much of the Muslim world), Chinese, Korean, Japanese etc etc) have developed their own writing systems, which cover much of the world today..

They had originally formed self-contained city-states which they owned, and had no desire to surrender their control and ownership to another city or group.

Each independent city-state had its own government comprising a council which carried out government functions and an assembly of the people which voted on issues put before it by the council. On top of this was a petty king, who ruled with advice from the council.

Prior to the Phoenician introduction of alphabetic writing, information was written down using much more complex pictorial forms such as Egyptian hieroglyphic writing and Mesopotamian cuneiform. While these systems were acceptable in the centers of power where scribes had long time periods in which to preserve important documents and records of historical achievement, they were cumbersome for use in business that involved travel over great distances and interaction with various cultures. The original Sinaitic and Phoenician alphabets recorded only consonants, as the Semitic languages did not need to write vowels. However, Greek could not be read with consonants alone, so the Greeks chose some Semitic consonants to represent their own consonants and used the extra symbols for vowels. The idea of writing vowels, which came from the Greeks, has had as much impact as anything else they gave us.

It facilitated written communication and record keeping.

We are often told that the Phoenicians invented the alphabet. Regardless of who put pen to papyrus to create it, the Phoenician contribution was none-the-less major and critical. They were the major sea-traders of the Mediterranean, and they went everywhere. When the Phoenicians began using the alphabet as a simple and easy way to keep track of their trades, it was exposed to everyone. Also they show the other countries that ships could travel around the globe trading important commodities. Phoenician mariners sailed to Mediterranean and southwestern European ports. The Phoenicians were the great merchants of ancient times. They sold rich treasures from many lands.

Timber, dyes, jewelry, foodstuffs, minerals.

1: The Phoenicians created the Phonetic alphabet which was later adopted by the Greeks and developed into our modern alphabet.

2:The Phoenicians founded and navigated with the North Star.

3: The Phoenicians were the first to create see through glass.

Their city-states were in today's Syria and Lebanon, plus Carthage in today's Tunisia.

They also established trading centres around the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and in Mesopotamia.

It was the first purely phonetic writing system in the history of humanity (as far as we know). It was an alphabet of only 22 letters, compared to the thousands of symbols required to read Egyptian or Sumerian.

The Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet for their own communications.

The Phoenicians invented the Phoenician alphabet to use themselves to simplify writing and make it more usable thant the previous systems used in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The Greeks adapted it for their own use, they are pioneers of vowels in alphabet.

They were trading stations spread around the central and western Mediterranean Sea.

For most of their early history the Phoenicians were independent. Then they came under the Seleucid Empire, a Greek state and then the Romans.

The Phoenicians traded around the Mediterranean Sea, and so sowed their alphabet in those places, which found it useful for their own communications, better then the pictograms and syllabic writings they used.

The Phoenician's most important gift was the Phoenician alphabet. Also known as the Greek alphabet

Inventing an alphabet to replace syllabic writing. This alphabet is the basis for the Greek and Roman alphabets, and ultimately the alphabet we commonly use today.

One of them is definatley the alphabet. The phonecians developed the first alphabet, but sumerians developed the first known system of writing. I did not find the second, however.

The second would be '' The Phoenician sea trade '' It helped the alphabet spread.