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Question
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What did the Phoenicians use to communicate complex ideas in writing?
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Alphabet
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Cuneiform
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Pictographs
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A stylus
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The German philologist Max Müller (1823-1900) believed that the Phoenician alphabet was derived from the Ancient South Arabian script during the 9th-century BC rule of the Minaeans over parts of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, during the 15th century BC. Before then the Phoenicians wrote with a cuneiform script. The earliest known inscriptions in the Phoenician alphabet come from Byblos and date back to 1000 BC.
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