Friday, March 9, 2012

The Phoenician Alphabet | 1050 BC

The Phoenician alphabet is based on what principle?
Direct variation of hieroglyphics 

Describe the shape of the letters and what tool created them?
The letters where angular and straight since they were shaped with a stylus
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What two reasons made the Phoenician alphabet so successful?
Trade spread the language, easier to learn than hieroglyphics

What long term effects on the social structures of civilizations did the Phoenicians have with the creation of their alphabet?
Simplicity allowed it to be used in other languages, common people learned how to write

Post an example of the Phoenician alphabet in visual form.




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