How did Greeks forget their old alphabet and adopt a new one

>>2947848
>their old alphabet

Linear B isn't an alphabet

>How the hell did they even make contact with each other? Didn't Greeks see them as hostiles?

No, Phoenicians founded emporiums on Euboea and Crete, and Euboean Greeks were members of mixed Phoenician/Greeks crews during the initial waves of colonizations of the Central Mediterranean in the late 9th/early 8th century bc

>How the FUCK did they even communicate?? They spoke two completely different languages!!

Some learned the others' language, like I'm doing now to communicate with you

>>2947848
Do you not get how a society works? Greeks traded with Phoenicians. It's hard to trade with people who don't speak your language, so they found someone who had learned both languages, and used them as a translator. No group of people, least of all the entirely disuntied Hellenes, saw any other entire group of people as hostiles. Not every single greek hated every single Phoenician. Intermarriage and constant trade was an ever-present aspect of life in the eastern Mediterranean. For random galley slave #24601, it might be easier to learn the simply alphabetic script of Phoenician than the more complex linear B, though that in itself is a gross oversimplification.

Thales of Miletus was of Phoenician descent, so intermixing and intermarriage was certainly happening as late as in 6th century BC.

>>2947848
t. monolingual american

>>2947848
Why do you post like this? What do you have to gain?