9. Culturally, the ______________________________________ are best known as transmitters. Instead of using pictographs or signs to represent whole words and syllables as the Mesopotamians and Egyptians did, they simplified their writing by using different signs to represent the sounds of their speech. These characters or letters could be used to spell out all the words in their language. Although, they were not the only people to invent an alphabet, theirs would have special significance because it was eventually passed on to the Greeks. From the Greek alphabet was derived the Roman alphabet that we still use today. 10. The Hebrews were the only ________________________ and ________________________________ society of the Ancient World .