that one sign represents one spoken sound.
Describe the shape of the letters and what tool created them?
they were incised with a stylus, most the shapes were angular and straight
What two reasons made the Phoenician alphabet so successful?
the trading culture of the phoenician merchants spread the use of the alphabet into parts of North Africa ans Europe.
What long term effects on the social structures of civilizations did the Phoenicians have with the creation of their alphabet?
first widespread script : its simplicity allowed it to be used in multiple languages, it also allowed common people to learn how to write. it disintegrated class divisions between royalty and the common people.
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