In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the resolution, and by December 1999, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation was accepting design proposals.
Which best explains why the Phoenician alphabet was developed? to aid in land conquests to help trade transactions to educate the government to stop foreign invasions.
The Phoenician Alphabet. The first systematic alphabet is credited to the Phoenicians, an ancient civilization who lived mainly in the northern part of Canaan. The term âalphabet is actually derived from the first two characters of the Phoenician script. The first two syllables come from the first character, âaleph, and the third syllable âbeth is from the second character.