The World Of Growing Knowledge

5. The____ traders carried the indian system of numbers to other countries
6. The hindi script is based on the ___ script
8. Their writing was wedge - shaped and was called ___
10. In Egypt , they used a type of picture writing called ___
12. ___ came into being about 5,000 years ago
13. They wrote on ___ with a sharp - edged knife
14. The ___ script today is largely based on brahmi script
17. Several thousands of years ago the _____ made clay tablets of clay on which they inscribed records
18. In their attempt to communicate with others and to record their thoughts , people began to draw __ of things they came across in their daily life
19. The ___ were the first to make paper
20. _____ developed a special script called braille script
21. _____ in germany invented the first printing press
24. Different signs for words and sounds gave birth to ___
25. The earliest system of counting was based on ___ numbers
26. The next script to develop in India was the ___ script

1. These days most of the paper is made from the plant named ___
2. The english language is written in the ___ script
3. In A.D. 105 , a Chinese , ____ discovered that certainplants could be broken down to fibres and pressed into sheets of paper
4. The earliest books were ____
7. The earliest known script was devised by the Sumerians in ____ around 4,000 B.C.
9. The invention of ____ changed the world greatly
11. The oldest script in India was found on the ___ in the remains of the Indus valley civilization
15. Sometimes , while trying to exchange their ideas , they made some __
16. The __ found in the ancient caves , especially those of hunting scenes and animals they came across , tell us much about the way those people lived
22. The english language has ___ alphabets
23. We have ___ major languages in India and they have their own scripts