Why The Phoenicians Were a Revolutionary Society

The Phoenicians were a revolutionary society due to their developing the purple dye, creating an alphabet of sounds, and their extraordinary trade routes. The Phoenicians were able to create purple dye from certain sea animals. This dye was purchased at high price from royalty, mostly Egypt. From this, they were able to have a developing economy. They were also amazing sea navigators. This is important because they spread their culture to every place that they traveled to. This also led to the invention of their alphabet which allowed them to record their business with other civilizations. This alphabet wasn’t like all the other alphabet before because it make each symbol represent a sound instead of a word. This means that they needed a lot less symbols in their alphabet. This is an amazing system because it allows those with a small amount of education to do basic reading and writing. It also gave way to more developed forms of the alphabet that became more and more optimized until it is now what we have today in the U.S. Because the Phoenicians created the alphabet, we have a lot to thank them for including the way you are reading this article right now.