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Why Athenians could read
Not every Athenian could read alphabetic Greek, but many citizens could. That would have been hard to imagine with cuneiform or hieroglyphs.
Simpler scripts, wider literacy.
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Meanwhile, alphabetic Aramaic began replacing Akkadian as the international language of diplomacy across West Asia.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 68
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