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The Greek alphabet mattered because mass civic participation required an efficient writing system, replacing elite Linear B with a tool for broader literacy and knowledge-seeking.
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Linear B
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...system so during the mycenaean age the writing system is called linear b and linear b um is a hard system to learn but..."
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The Greek writing system changes toward the alphabet as part of the post-collapse transition.
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"...system so during the mycenaean age the writing system is called linear b and linear b um is a hard system to learn but..."
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"incorporated they created a new system called the alphabet which is the same system we use today because it's so effective okay so let..."
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"...count this is what i call a syllet syllabary okay so linear b was a syllabary and um the chúng system is what i..."
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"the system okay and this is the most efficient writing system in the world it's really easy to learn as you know uh from..."
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"...thing that's important is the writing system changes. It went from linear B. Linear B becomes linear B. And that becomes, do you guys..."
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"...similarity second major similarity is in classical greece they transition from linear b which is very complicated um ideographic language to the alphabet okay..."
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