WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenicians shared their writing system with everyone they met as they traveled the Mediterranean Sea. Thats why the Phoenicians are often called the ´carriers of civilization.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, each for sound rather than a word or phrase. It provided the basis for the Hebrew and Arabic alphabet as well as the Greek alphabet which gave birth to the Latin alphabet which beget the modern alphabet.

Detailed explanation-3: -A fairly small group of traders and merchants known as the Phoenicians created the foundation for the modern English alphabet and other alphabets. They organized a system of 22 consonants into what became the alphabet used not only by English speakers, but by speakers of many of the world’s languages.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.