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Cuneiform writing had over 560 signs Egyptian hieroglyphics were - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Cuneiform writing had over 560 signs Egyptian hieroglyphics were - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Cuneiform writing had over 560 signs Egyptian hieroglyphics were simpler and used only 20 or 30 different symbols that could be combined to make words. The Alphabet The Egyptian system used pictographs for sounds made in speech. Minoan
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Egyptian hieroglyphics were simpler and used only 20 or 30 different symbols that could be combined to make words.
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The Alphabet The Egyptian system used pictographs for sounds made in speech.
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Minoan civilization on the island of Crete also developed an early alphabet.
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The Phaistos Disk As many as 241 symbols are stamped in clay in what is believed to be a written alphabet.
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Phaistos Disk side A side B
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Phaistos Disk detail
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Phaistos Disk detail
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Phoenicians were seafaring merchants who sailed the Mediterranean Sea.
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Phoenicians linked settlements throughout the region and helped spread cuneiform and hieroglyphic writing.
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Phoenician trade routes included ancient Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and North Africa.
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Phoenician script Also called the North Semitic script, it read from right to left and became the predecessor of the Aramaic Alphabet.
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Aramaic script
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Hebrew script
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Arabic script
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Sanskrit script
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Phoenician > Greek > Latin (Roman)
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> Cyrillic Phoenician > Greek > Latin (Roman)
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Ancient Greek Empire during the 4th century under Alexander the Great. Greek culture brought a demand for works of literature such as philosophy, poetry, and drama.
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Greek The Greeks adopted the Phoenician alphabet, but modified it, making the letters more geometrically structured.
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Greek stela were erected as markers along the lands conquered by the army. They were inscribed with the elegant Greek letterforms to commemorate Greek battles. Soon, an oral culture no longer had the capacity to contain and document knowledge and information:
- Military armies used writing
to communicate and inform
- Officials needed documents
- Demand rose for Greek
philosophical works
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Papyrus was in short supply and decayed easily.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
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Parchment King Eumenes II of Ancient Greece developed the process of making parchment to
- vercome an embargo
placed on shipments of papyrus from Egypt.
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Parchment
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Parchment
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Parchment
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Etruscan civilization
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The Roman Empire by 117 CE
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Latin script The Romans adopted the Latin script which the Etruscans had modeled after the Greek alphabet.
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Trajan’s Column One of the most beautiful inscriptions adorns Trajan’s Column in Rome – a monument to a famous Roman general.
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Trajan’s Column The column features remarkable reliefs of battle scenes.
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The Romans perfected the Greek letterforms by adding chiseled serifs to Latin letters at the base of Trajan’s column.
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The Latin script was carved in capitalis monumentalis – which later influenced renaissance roman type.
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The codex vs. the scroll
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The codex was easier to read and more portable than scrolls.
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The codex was preferred by Christians who regarded scrolls as
- pagan. Their parchment pages held paint and metals nicely.
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The codex exists in these Central American stone tablets and some have been found bound together.
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Hangul script The Korean monarch Sejong developed the Hangul script in 1446 by decree to overcome the great difficulty in learning the Chinese writing system. It is the only Asian writing system based on an alphabet . It was scientifically designed to depict sounds made from speech using the positions made by the mouth and tongue.
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Hangul consists of 14 consonants and 10 vowels that combine to write words arranged in individual square blocks.
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