The alphabet and sailing around the world.
The modern scriptures (first peoples to write down their accounts).
The Phoenicians.
Approximately 1500 B.C.
An alphabet.
For communication and records.
In the 9th Century BCE.
Trade.
Profitable trade.
In the Phoenician city-states.
Ancien Phonicians were the first to develope ships for sailing.
As an easier means of exchange than trade goods.
To keep readily and consistently readable and understandable records and communication.
The Phoenicians developed their writing system from the Sumerian writing system in 1400 BCE, so their writing system came after the Sumerian one.