Phoenicia

The Phoenicians lived in a two hundred mile long strip bordering the Mediterranean Sea, so they were sea traders. They made purple cloth that was very expensive and prized among royalty that was made from a dye produced by a sea snail called a murex. They also had many cedar trees growing there, so they used them to build boats and furniture. They were excellent sea traders who produced the first alphabet that consisted of 22 consonants and they gave it away, the Greeks took this alphabet and turned it into their own alphabet.

The alphabetic writing system, copied by Greek, Roman and modern European languages.

Phoenicia was not an empire. It was a collection of independent city-states in today's Lebanon and Syria. As i dependent mini-states, they met the challenge of an expanding population by turning to trade rather than trying to conquer more land.

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.

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They took more primitive earlier efforts of others and developed it to fine glasswate.

The Phoenicians developed the Phoenician alphabet, also known as the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for writing. One theory is that it may have had its origins as an adaptation of the Egyptian hieroglyphs to the Canaanite language.

It was valuable because they were the only ones to make it. Haha I'm smart and your not! suckers!

It was the main trader around the Mediterranean Sea.

It was taken up by the Greeks and Latins, and through them to us today, giving us an effective communication and recording system.

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Europa.

In the 9th Century BCE.

The peoples who lived on the Mediterranean littoral and as far afield as Mesopotamia and Britain.

Some were the kings of the city-states in the eastern Mediterranean. Others were the leaders of Carthage including the Barca family, in particular Hannibal who pursued the campaign against Rome in the Second Punic War and afterwards.

The Phoenician Alphabet

They were made in carthage by the Phoenicians and Lydains.

They were sea traders, and established trading posts as bases for exchanging goods with the locals. This was an ongoing source of contact and exchange of information and culture.

Cornwall in Britain.

Navigating by the stars.

Phoenicia was comprised of independent city-states. The main ones were Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Carthage.

Spain, Italy.

It was a city-state - with its own government and independent, and therefore able to make its own decisions and enjoy its own wealth, without a a predatory superior government to rip them off and push them into wars. The result is that they elected to become traders and prospered.

They were the greatest traders in ancient times. They built good ships, were good sailors and were first to establish colonies along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea.

It was alphabetic, and allowed accuracy and easy understanding of complex words, as opposed to the pictograms and syllabic scripts before they invented this. It was so effective that it was adapted by the Greeks and Romans for their own writing, and forms the basis of our common writing today.
It was the first to use a simple, flexible alphabetic writing system. From the Phoenician alphabet developed the Greek and Roma alphabets which underpin the alphabets we use today.
It was alphabetic and enabled better communication and record keeping.
Phoenicians writing was important because they has so much trade. They needed a way to simplify writing. Cuneiform had hundreds of symbols, just to much and complicating. So they found out a way to write with using 22 symbols. Making it easier for trade.