CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
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Question
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What is the Phoenicians most important contribution?
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spreading of the idea of the alphabet
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hieroglyphics
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trading cedar wood
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None of the above
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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 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 initial adoption of the Phoenician writing script took place in the Middle East which had large-scale contact with major civilizations across Eurasia and North Africa. This allowed ideas that started within the Middle East cluster to easily spread far and wide.
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