ANSWER: The Chinese society that was only known for its local tradition and martial arts became the fastest growing economy today, due to how the society became innovative and always hardworking.
EXPLANATION: The Chinese innovation in technology actually grew due to how the U.S and British invested into it's industrialization, because Chinese labor market was very cheap, and the population are also very sincere and hardworking. The U.S found this as an advantage to build it's industry at a very cheaper rate for labor, tax, land, and also government policy. It attracted so many investors to China because corruption was not high in it's government, and the citizens were sincere to foreigners and ready to work.
The Chinese were also a smart set of people that grabbed the innovation in technology and began to produce more innovative feature in the technologies that was brought to it's country. Though it's culture is still rich, but Technology has become richer that it's culture.
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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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<span>Out of the ancient civilizations the empire which controlled the most land was the Persian Empire. It was under the leadership of Alexander the Great that the Persian Empire was finally conquered. The Empire was connected by a vast series of roads, most famous of which was the Royal Road, and they controlled a fleet of many ships used to conquer surrounding lands.</span>