The Phoenician alphabet is based on what principle?
The principle that one sign represents one spoken sound
Describe the shape of the letters and what tool created them?
Created with a stylus, the Phoenician alphabet consisted of angular and straight shapes
What two reasons made the Phoenician alphabet so successful?
1) This system contrasted with other scripts that were more complex and difficult to learn, and 2) the trading culture of the Phoenician merchants spread the use of the alphabet into parts of North Africa and Europe
What long term effects on the social structures of civilizations did the Phoenicians have with the creation of their alphabet?
It was the first widespread script, with its simplicity allowing it to be used in multiple languages, but also allowed common people to learn how to write, disintegrated class divisions between royalty and the common people
Post an example of the Phoenician alphabet in visual form.
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