CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Cuisine
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Alphabet
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Algebra
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Probably the Phoenicians’ most important contribution to humanity was the Phonetic alphabet. The Phoenician written language has an alphabet that contains 22 characters, all of them consonants. Vowels are absent.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenician alphabet was used to write the Early Iron Age Canaanite languages, subcategorized by historians as Phoenician, Hebrew, Moabite, Ammonite and Edomite, as well as Old Aramaic.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most important one is the alphabet. Most writing systems were made up of hundreds if not thousands of characters. The Phoenicians or their predecessors borrowed only 22 Egyptian hieroglyphs. Second is that the Phoenicians reestablished maritime trade routes that had been broken by the Late Bronze Age Collapse c.