Practice question · True or false
The Greek alphabet spread quickly into non-administrative use partly because it belonged to no institution.
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- Who controlled cuneiform and hieroglyphs?
- A scribal class guards a script it took years to learn.
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True
Why
True. Adapted from Phoenician and small enough to learn quickly, it was not the property of a temple or palace scribal class, so it was used for poetry, graffiti and commerce almost at once, where earlier scripts stayed administrative for centuries under specialist control.
Practise The Bronze Age Aegean
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