...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabe... ...eft priests and scribes with little time or motivation for creativity. Phoenicians, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Medi... ...s symbols of sound. For millennia, most historians tended to credit the Phoenicians with inventing the first phonetic alphabet. In 1999, however, ... ...bols—often even to the same sound value it had eight thousand years ago. Phoenician ABCs lineage survives Whether innovators in Phoenicia or in ... ...use of a sound-symbol alphabet, and only alphabetic offspring of phonetic Phoenician lineage prevail to this day. Phoenicians were much more power... ...it was extremely costly and was worn as mark of imperial or royal rank. Phoenicians were seafaring traders using manpowered sailing galleys. They ...

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