History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . s paper (12th century ). TheGreeks soon became familiar with the Phoenician tradesmanssheets of pale-yellow paper, bearing his bills and receipts, and atlast they began to write Greek words by using the Phoenicianletters. Thus an alphabet appeared in Europe for the first 700 the Greek potters had begun to write their nameson the jars which they painted (Fig. 34), and writing was shortlyafterward common among Greeks of all classes. From the alpha-bet which the Phoenicians thus brought to the Gr


History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . s paper (12th century ). TheGreeks soon became familiar with the Phoenician tradesmanssheets of pale-yellow paper, bearing his bills and receipts, and atlast they began to write Greek words by using the Phoenicianletters. Thus an alphabet appeared in Europe for the first 700 the Greek potters had begun to write their nameson the jars which they painted (Fig. 34), and writing was shortlyafterward common among Greeks of all classes. From the alpha-bet which the Phoenicians thus brought to the Greeks, all the alpha-bets of the civilized world have been derived, including our own. Tlie Rise oj the Eastern Mediterranean World 93 Along with the alphabet the equipment for using it — thatis, pen, ink, and paper—for the first time came into Greeks received all their paper from Egypt through thePhcenicians ; hence out word paper, derived from papyrus(§22). The Greeks also called papyrus byblos after thePhoenician city of Byblos, from which they received it. Thus. 4 Fig. 34. \.\se-Paixti,\g the \i;uest ofGreek Writing Aristonothos, the artist who made this vase-painting, has inserted his nameo\er the standard at the right, in the lower row, where the letters run to theright and drop down. It reads, Aristonothos made it. This is not only theearliest .signed vase (§ 140) hut it is likewise the earliest signed work of art,crude though it may be, in Europe arose the Greek word biblia for books, and from this wordhas come our word Bible. This English word Bible, oncethe name of a Phoenician city, is a living evidence of the originof books and the paper of which they are made in the ancientOrient, from v/hich the Greeks received so much.^ 1 .\ fuller account of the remarkable achievements of the Phcenicians will be foundin Ancient Times, §§ 304-405. 94 History of Europe 141. Warfare and Weapons. The Greek nobles of this ageloved war and wer


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