The Origins of Writing

1. Pictographs represent spoken (BLANK), instead of using letters to spell words.
4. What was the very first form of writing using images for spoken words 37,000 years before traditional writing?
6. The Latin alphabet eventually became widely used throughout Europe in thanks to the rise of what empire?
7. The first alphabet contained all:
8. Hieroglyphs are a kind of pictographic writing that represents both spoken and written language using a system of what?
10. Who created Cuneiform?
11. What is the most recently developed form of writing?

2. The oldest known pictographs are located in what country?
3. What was the first known writing in Egypt known as?
5. What is the first true alphabetic writing system?
7. This writing is still in use today and has over 50,000 word equivalents in the language.
9. What alphabet was the first to include vowels and gave birth to many other languages in Europe, including the first Latin writing?