According to James Russell, the Mashdots Professor of Armenian at Harvard, the principle reason why Mesrob Mashdots invented the Armenian alphabet was to change Armenia’s cultural orientation from the Iranian East to the Mediterranean West. Mashdots also “gave Armenia the means and the incentive to remain Christian.”
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