[DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Wikipedia [PAR] Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization of unknown origin 
situated on the .... Canaanite culture apparently developed in situ from the earlier 
Ghassulian ... This metallic evidence agrees with the biblical memory of a 
western ... It was here that the first inscription in the Phoenician alphabet was 
found, on... [DOC] [TLE] History of the alphabet - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of alphabetic writing goes back to the consonantal writing system 
used for Semitic ... Its first origins can be traced back to a Proto-Sinaitic script 
developed in .... The alphabet of the early western Greek dialects, where the 
letter eta ..... The Impact of the Phonetic Alphabet on the Development of Western 
Civilization,... [DOC] [TLE] Phoenicia - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] Sep 2, 2009 ... Phoenicia was an ancient civilization composed of independent city-states ... The 
Phoenician alphabet is the basis for most western languages written today ... The 
Phoenicians were primarily known as sailors who had developed a high level ... 
at Byblos where the design of the curved hull was first initiated. [DOC] [TLE] Who created the first alphabet? - Ask History [PAR] Aug 6, 2014 ... Before the alphabet was invented, early writing systems had been ... The 
invention of written language replaced the oral tradition and allowed civilizations 
... alphabet gave rise to several other alphabets, including Latin, which... [DOC] [TLE] The History of Greece - Hellenic Foundation [PAR] The Cycladic civilization developed rapidly in all domains: trade, politics and 
culture with ... Greeks first settled on the Greek mainland about 2000 B.C. 
Geography ... indented with countless small harbors, invited the people to 
become sailors, ..... alphabet as transformed by the Greeks, that being either the 
Latin alphabet in... [DOC] [TLE] Phoenician Civilization - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Apr 26, 2015 ... They were the first civilization to create the bireme. ... Historian Gerhard Herm 
asserts that, because the Phoenicians' legendary sailing abilities are not well .... 
The Phoenician alphabet was developed around 1200 B.C.E. from an .... in 
Phoenician colonies around the western Mediterranean beginning in... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 11: Ancient Greece Lesson 1 The Geography Of Greece [PAR] Culture Trade helped the early Greeks develop a sophisticated culture. 
Geography ... built rowing warships, sailing trade ships.  Small ships ... First 
civilization began on Peloponnesus; named for city of Mycenae. - Mycenaeans 
were ... The Greek alphabet influenced the development of all Western alphabets
, in- cluding the... [DOC] [TLE] (13) The origin of alphabets and the languages of the world. [PAR] The North Semitic Phoenicians developed the first form of graphic signs around 
1500 BC and the ... That's how it became the ancestor of all the western 
alphabets. ... They were seagoing traders, good ship builders and sailors, 
believed in many gods and .... The earliest civilization of Persia goes back to 
around 3000 BC. [DOC] [TLE] Inventions of the Phoenicians | Our Everyday Life [PAR] Their trade as merchant sailors led the Phoenicians to develop various ... The 
modern Western alphabet originated from a set of letters that the ... While older 
civilizations, like the Egyptians and the Sumerians, had developed pictorial 
writing with ... being the first to add a keel down the middle of the hull for 
improved balance. [DOC] [TLE] The History of Writing - Fun Science Gallery [PAR] It is not clear which of those two peoples invented writing first, although it seems 
.... In that period, the great civilizations of the bronze age, of the Aegean sea and 
of ... a people of traders and sailors, by putting at their disposal a writing system ... 
The Latin alphabet was spread through the whole of Europe and, after the big... [DOC] [TLE] The Phoenicians (1500300 B.C.) | Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art ... [PAR] the Phoenician cities first emerged as urban entities around 1500 B.C. As ... strip 
with limited agricultural resources, maritime trade was a natural development. ... 
For example, according to the Greek historian Herodotus, Phoenician sailors, at 
the ... that became the root of the Western alphabets when the Greeks adopted it. [DOC] [TLE] Origin of the Phoenician Empire -- Accurately Dating Phoenician ... [PAR] "

Question: Civilization of sailors that developed 1st Western alphabet
Answer: the Phoenicians