CIVILIZATION
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Question
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Which civilization was the first to use a writing system in which every symbol represented a sound?
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Egyptians
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Phoenicians
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Persians
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Hebrews
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenician Alphabet was an early form of writing developed by the ancient Phoenician civilization and is one of the first known modern alphabets. The Phoenician communities developed along the Mediterranean Sea around 1500 B.C.E.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400 to 3100 BCE, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BCE.
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