WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The invention of the Phoenician Alphabet, the prototype for all alphabets in the world, is the most significant contribution that Lebanon has made to the whole of humanity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the most significant contribution of the Phoenicians was an alphabetic writing system that became the root of the Western alphabets when the Greeks adopted it.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Phoenicians used cuneiform but later developed their own alphabet. This famous sequence of letters known to much of the world dates back to the 16th century B.C.E. A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as the Phoenicians created the foundation for the modern English alphabet and other alphabets.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was through this trading empire that the Phoenicians spread their greatest intellectual achievement: namely, the alphabet. In the middle of the second millennium B.C., the Phoenicians created the first alphabet–before the appearance of the Israelites in the southern portion of their territory.