CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Question
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What happened to the Phoenician alphabet?
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It disappeared from history.
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Only stone tablets remain of it.
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It was replaced by the Phoenicians for a simpler form of writing.
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It spread quickly among other groups and was slowly adapted by them until eventually used by the Romans to create Latin.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoenicians spread their alphabet through their vast trading network that stretched throughout the entire Mediterranean region. The Greeks adopted it and by the 8th century B.C.E. had added vowels.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Phoenician alphabet proper remained in use in Ancient Carthage until the 2nd century BC (known as the Punic alphabet), while elsewhere it diversified into numerous national alphabets, including the Aramaic and Samaritan, several Anatolian scripts, and the early Greek alphabets.
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