The Phoenician alphabet was important because it was easier to read than cuneiform, it was made out of letters, not picture symbols. It made life easier for the Phoenicians and it helped trade spread. It also evolved many other alphabets like the Greek, Latin, and of course the English alphabet. Some parts in the bible are written in Phoenician.
The Phoenicians.
Approximately 1500 B.C.
An alphabet.
In the 9th Century BCE.
The Hebrew alphabet was borrowed from the Phoenicians.
They were the first to develop alphabet-based writing, much simpler than the writing systems developed so far.
The alphabet and sailing around the world.
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!
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The Phoenicians invented the alphabet in the 1900's B.C.E.
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