Lebanon is known where the Phoenician once lived about 1200 B.C. through 900 B.C. Many people know the Phoenician because they were the first to discover the alphabet. The Phoenicians group had many impacts on us today. The most important impact that the Phoenicians had for us was the alphabet. In the older alphabet they didn't have symbols they had sounds for each letter. This alphabet help Phoenicians mark their traders that they used. The Greeks borrowed the Phoenicians alphabet then it travel all around world now we have the alphabet. The early 800 B.C. the alphabet was spread to the Greek then it was refined and enhanced to record the Greek language.
When the alphabet first came out it had 22 consonants and no vowels. When the Greek took over the alphabet they added vowels to the alphabet. The Greek language was originally written from right to left, but eventually changed to where the direction of written went left to right. The Phoenicians use sounds to put in between the letters. Some of the symbols that they used are vowels we have now. Over time, the Greek alphabet gave rise to several other alphabets, including Latin, which spread across Europe, and Cyrillic, the precursor of the modern Russian alphabet.