Week 2 Activity

3. A holy book which spreads the Muslim religion that conquests by the Arab during the seventh and eighth centuries A.D.
8. It is a bold inscriptional lettering with extended thick characters.
9. It is a set of visual symbols or characters used to represent the elementary sounds of a spoken language.
13. It is a flat terra-cotta disk. 16.5 centimeters (6 inches) in diameter, has pictographic and seemingly alphabetic forms imprinted on both sides in spiral bands.
15. Japanese empress who decreed one million copies of Buddhist dharani to be printed which is the earliest surviving datable printing in history.
17. The oldest surviving printed manuscript which is consisted of seven sheets of paper pasted together to form a scroll.
18. Early people used pictures as an elementary way to record and transmit information.
20. A kind of cloth used for writing before the invention of paper
21. a writing surface made from the skins of domestic animals—particularly calves, sheep, and goats-was invented to overcome the embargo.
22. the Egyptians retained their picture-writing system who evolved their pictographic writing into the abstract cuneiform.
23. Both sides of the parchment pages could be used for writing; this saved storage space and material costs.
24. one of the most scientific writing systems ever invented.
25. rebus writing which is pictures and/or pictographs representing words and syllables with the same or similar sound as the object depicted.

1. adopted the Phoenician alphabet and oldest known inscriptions from the eighth B.C.
2. It is an alphabet first used by the tribe from Aram (Syria) which became a major early derivation from the North Semitic script.
4. formed libraries and he has the biggest and most significant library in Alexandria, Egypt.
5. His progress toward translating hieroglyphics enabled other Egyptologists to unlock the mysteries of Egyptian history and culture.
6. One of the source of North Semitic alphabet and sought a writing system for their own Northern Semitic speech.
7. It is an achrophonic adaptation of hieroglyphs which mines by Semitic workers in Egyptian turquoise in the Sinai desert area.
10. The prime minister who designed the unified Chinese calligraphy under the regime of Emperor Shih Huang Ti.
11. A Chinese invention that become a major breakthrough in human history.
12. The early scripts of the people in Lebanon and parts of Syria and Israel.
14. It is a writing script developed in Byblos (the oldest Phoenician city-state) used pictographic signs devoid of any remaining meaning.
16. The earliest discovered Chinese writings were inscribed in _____.
19. a Korean monarch who introduced the Korean alphabet.