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…showed last 75 words of 1189 total…lonize many distant areas in the known world. They were the first civilization that ever create a condensed alphabet, using symbols to represent sounds instead of the Sumerian and Egyptian representation of objects. This alphabet was the foundation of the alphabets used in Western civilization. Without the Phoenicians contributions, modern society might be a very different place. A different form of sea navigation might be used and a different kind of writing might be used.