<span>The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions ... Phoenician inscriptions have been found in archaeological sites at a number of former Phoenician cities and ... to the Phoenician ones and vowels were added, because the Phoenician alphabet did not contain any vowels.</span><span>
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But the foundations of modern science were laid long before this time, and were particularly influenced by Islamic civilization. The Muslims were the leading scholars between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, and were the heirs of the scientific traditions of Greece, India and Persia.
Nativism is hostility toward immigrants by native-born people (nativists). Nativists extremely dislike immigrants, and, therefore, opposed immigration.