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In after the dark age of greek civilization , how did the greeks learn to write again

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They adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.

"The Greek alphabet emerged in the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BC. Another, unrelated writing system, Linear B, had been in use to write the Greek language during the earlier Mycenean period, but the two systems are separated from each other by a hiatus of several centuries, the so-called Greek Dark Ages. The Greeks adopted the alphabet from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, a member of the family of closely related West Semitic scripts. The most notable change made in adapting the Phoenician system to Greek was the introduction of vowel letters."
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The correct answer is B) they adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.

After the dark age of Greek civilization, the Greeks learned to write again because they adapted the Phoenician alphabet to their own language.

The Greek Dark age was the period of ancient Greece that went from the Mycenaean palatial civilization in 1100 BC and ended with the presence of the Greek city-states in the 9th century. This period is also known as the Homeric Age. After this time, the Greeks adapted the abjad system used by the Phoenicians to their own language, including some vowels sound to create their own Greek alphabet. This alphabet started to spread along the Mediterranean region when the Greeks conquered other territories.

The other options of the question were a) they discovered old scrolls left behind by the Minoans and Mycenaeans, c) they learned Sumerian cuneiform and changed it over the years, and d) the Macedonians taught then to write after they were conquered by Alexander the Great.

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