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.
They produced the alphabet from which Greece and Rome developed  theirs. They are credited with inventing the bireme.    The Phoenicians were conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 539  BC, and then were divided into four vassal kingdoms thereafter.