Is there anymore background info?
Herodotus wrote that Phoenicia was the birthplace of the alphabet, stating that it was brought to Greece by the Phoenician “Kadmus” circa the 8th century BCE.<u> It is suggested that the Greeks had no alphabet before that happening.</u> <u>The Phoenician alphabet is the basis for most western languages written today.</u> Something interesting to mention is that their city of Gebal reffered by the Greeks as 'Byblos gave the Bible its name. Gebal was the greatest exporter of papyrus, which was the paper used in writing in ancient Egypt and Greece.
For all the formerly mentioned, it is quite easy to infer that one of the most significant influences the Phoenicians had on the Western world is:
A. the alphabet
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some people say that the founding fathers are hypocrites because the Declaration of Independence states "all men are created equal," but they owned slaves, and there was an argument against the north vs south states on whether or not slavery should be in the constitution. ultimately , slavery was written in the constitution, hence the three-fifths compromise.
they were hypocrites because "all men were created equal" but slaves were considered three-fifths of a person"
