The form of government that was born in the ancient Greek culture was "Democracy," although it should be noted that this was a "direct" democracy as opposed to a "representative" democracy like we have in the United States.
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According to Herodotus, the Phoenician prince Cadmus was accredited with the introduction of the Phoenician alphabet—phoinikeia grammata, "Phoenician letters"—to the Greeks, who adapted it to form their Greek alphabet.
