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How did the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the ancient world?
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
Why do ancient people use pulleys?
Because it made work easier, especially lifting.
The Phoenician people derived their name from _______.?
the color purple
What was the name of the people that created the true alphabet?
the Arabic people were the first to create the alphabet.
Which ancient people are credited for the Greek Latin and Hebrew alphabets?
The Hebrews developed the Hebrew alphabet.The Greeks developed the Greek alphabet.The Romans developed the Latin alphabet.
What did the Phoenician alphabet make it easier for people in ancient world to do?
Write words.
The phoenician alphabet made it easier for people in the ancient world to do what?
The medes and the chaldeans
What did the Phoenician alphabet do for people in the ancient world?
It gave them an accurate and economical means of communicating and keeping records.
Who was the Phoenician alphabet inventor?
The Phoenician people in the 9th Century BCE.
Which ancient people developed an alphabet that gave rise to the Hebrew Greek and the Latin alphabets still in use today?
There is no ancient people that did this. While the Phoenicians developed an alphabet that gave rise to Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, the Phoenician alphabet is not still in use today.
How did the Phoenician alphabet spread throughout the ancient world?
The alphabet simplifies trade between people that spoke different languages. Phoenician sea trade,in return ,helped the alphabet to spread
What did the Phoenician alphabet make easier for people in the ancient world?
Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon and Tartus Governorate in Syria. The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1200 BCE, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and it was perhaps the first alphabetic script to be wide used. Phoenician spread around the Mediterranean, particularly to Tunisia, southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula which is the modern Spain, Portugal, Malta, southern France and Sicily, and was spoken until the 1st century AD. Historians do not speak on how the language made what easy in the least part.
What did the Phoenician alphabet do for the people in the ancient world?
It was copied and adapted by the Greeks and Romans, so becoming the basis of today's cursive writing.
How was the Phoenician alphabet spread?
Traders took the alphabet with them to pass on to other people.
How did the Phoenician alphabet affect the Greek and Latin languages?
It's because it made writing easier.
What was the big adventage of the Phoenician alphabet when compared to cuneiform?
The Phoenician alphabet was simpler and more user-friendly compared to cuneiform, which had a large number of intricate characters. The Phoenician alphabet also represented sounds rather than concepts, making it easier for people to learn and use for everyday communication.
What made the phoenician alphabet easier for the people?
It combined to provide accurate sounds for simpler communication, as compared to the inaccurate and unwieldy syllabic scripts and pictograms.
