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April 12, 2023: HEBREW AND CHINESE WRITING SHAPING CULTURE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - New system of beliefs that led to Monotheism
      - new advanced system of writing (alphabet)
        
        spread through the Mediterranean worlds (Greece and Rome).
        
        Phoenician Alphabet gave rise to most modern European Alphabets
- - - - impact was also due to phoenician merchants using it often across the Mediterranean world
        
        influence spread outside the canaanite sphere
  - - - back in the day, cuniform symbols were common across mesopotamia
      - the formalised phoenician alphabet were made from hieroglyphs
  - - - went from pictographic to alphabetic, linear scripts
        
        strictly written in horizontal and righ tot left
        
        though some texts were shown to be written left to right
        
        boustrophedon
    - - one sound was represented by one symbol
  - - - spread the alphabet into parts of northern africa and southern europe
- - - - have to cross indian ocean
        
        needs bigger boats