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- 2. Alphabet, adopted the Phoenician alphabet and oldest known inscriptions from the eighth B.C.
- 4. Both sides of the parchment pages could be used for writing; this saved storage space and material costs.
- 8. the Egyptians retained their picture-writing system who evolved their pictographic writing into the abstract cuneiform.
- 9. rebus writing which is pictures and/or pictographs representing words and syllables with the same or similar sound as the object depicted.
- 10. Sejong, a Korean monarch who introduced the Korean alphabet.
- 11. alphabet, The early scripts of the people in Lebanon and parts of Syria and Israel.
- 13. one of the most scientific writing systems ever invented.
- 14. It is a set of visual symbols or characters used to represent the elementary sounds of a spoken language.
- 17. the Great, formed libraries and he has the biggest and most significant library in Alexandria, Egypt.
- 20. They mostly wrote the picture(letters) on clay tablets.
- 23. script, It is an achrophonic adaptation of hieroglyphs which mines by Semitic workers in Egyptian turquoise in the Sinai desert area.
- 24. Japanese empress who decreed one million copies of Buddhist dharani to be printed which is the earliest surviving datable printing in history.
- 26. It is a bold inscriptional lettering with extended thick characters.
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- 1. A Chinese invention that become a major breakthrough in human history.
- 3. a writing surface made from the skins of domestic animals—particularly calves, sheep, and goats-was invented to overcome the embargo.
- 5. Sutra, The oldest surviving printed manuscript which is consisted of seven sheets of paper pasted together to form a scroll.
- 6. generis, It is a writing script developed in Byblos (the oldest Phoenician city-state) used pictographic signs devoid of any remaining meaning.
- 7. One of the source of North Semitic alphabet and sought a writing system for their own Northern Semitic speech.
- 12. Bones, The earliest discovered Chinese writings were inscribed in _____.
- 15. Ssu, The prime minister who designed the unified Chinese calligraphy under the regime of Emperor Shih Huang Ti.
- 16. A kind of cloth used for writing before the invention of paper
- 18. alphabet, It is an alphabet first used by the tribe from Aram (Syria) which became a major early derivation from the North Semitic script.
- 19. François Champollion, His progress toward translating hieroglyphics enabled other Egyptologists to unlock the mysteries of Egyptian history and culture.
- 21. Disk, 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.
- 22. Early people used pictures as an elementary way to record and transmit information.
- 25. A holy book which spreads the Muslim religion that conquests by the Arab during the seventh and eighth centuries A.D.