The advantage of the Phoenician system of writing over the Chinese, Sumerian, and Egyptian was that it
(a) used fewer sounds (b) used fewer pictures (c) used fewer symbols (d) none of the above
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenician_alphabet
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