Why did the peoples of Phoenicia, Canaan, and the Sinai Peninsula develop their alphabet around 1600 B.C.E.?
A) They needed to write their laws in several languages.
B) They wanted a simpler writing system for their business records.
C) They preferred to communicate in writing that foreigners could not read.
D) They traded with the Egyptians, who taught them multilingual scripts.
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