HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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Question
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What did the Phoenicians contribute to the civilization of southwestern Asia?
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The use of an alphabet.
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The invention and circulation of coined money.
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The social structure of the caste system.
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The practice of monotheism and the Ten Commandments.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -It is believed that the Phoenicians developed their alphabet to make their bookkeeping easier. Unlike the Egyptian hieroglyphic system, in which a large number of pictures and symbols were used to represent sounds, the Phoenicians alphabet used a small number of symbols to represent sounds.
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