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History of Writing
The history of writing is the method of expressing language through letters and markings. The earliest writing dates back to ancient Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica. There are debates whether the development of writing originated in China or Egypt.
1,360 Questions
What is the meaning of the prefix proto?
A combining form meaning "first," "foremost," "earliest form of," used in the formation of compound words.
What effect did the invention of writing have in the ancient world?
Ancient Egyptians used Hieroglyphics
What alphabet was composed using the Greek Egyptian and Hebrew languages?
There isn't an alphabet with origins from all three of those languages.
people are just tempted to believe things like that
Excerpted from; "Why People Believe Weird Things.""More than any other, the reason people believe weird things," says Shermer, "is because they want to. . . .It feels good. It is comforting. It is consoling." Secondly, weird beliefs offer "immediate gratification." People like weird beliefs because they are simple. Weird beliefs also satisfy the quest for significance: they satisfy our moral needs and our desire that life be meaningful. Finally, he says, people believe weird things because weird things give them hope.for full text, see related link.
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Themes in the poem the vulture by david diop?
it simply means that the poet was sick and tired about the colonial rule and wanted to end it.he wrote the poem to express his points about the sinister side of the rule
How do you use were and are in a sentence?
was is used with singular subjects, were with plural subjects. (There is no reasoning involved).
Why do people use pictures in writing?
To more clearly depict the story for those who do not have an adequate imagination. This is more commonly seen in children's books and in some old novels. Authors do not use pictures that much in adult books, however, biographies have pictures to accompany them to help tell the reader about someone's life.
Pictures in novels nowadays are being replaced by movie versions of the stories. This means that more people are simply watching the movie before they read the book, so writers are not bothering to include pictures within their novels as the reader will be referring to the movie's point of view.
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Well, there are 11,417 twelve-letter words in the Scrabble dictionary. How about 100 of them?
abbreviation
abolitionist
abstractness
abstruseness
academically
acceleration
accentuation
accidentally
accomplished
accumulation
accumulative
accurateness
acoustically
acquaintance
acquiescence
adaptability
additionally
adjectivally
adjudication
administrate
admonishment
adulteration
advantageous
advisability
aerodynamics
aeronautical
affectionate
afterthought
aggressively
agribusiness
agricultural
alliteration
alliterative
alphabetical
alphanumeric
amalgamation
ambidextrous
ambivalently
amelioration
amphitheater
analytically
anarchically
anatomically
anchorperson
annihilation
announcement
annunciation
antagonistic
antediluvian
anthropology
antiabortion
antiaircraft
anticipation
anticipatory
antiparticle
antithetical
appendectomy
appendicitis
appreciation
appreciative
apprehension
apprehensive
approachable
appurtenance
architecture
aristocratic
arithmetical
articulately
articulation
artificially
artistically
asphyxiation
assimilation
astonishment
astoundingly
astrological
astronautics
astronomical
astrophysics
asymmetrical
athletically
attractively
attributable
augmentation
auspiciously
authenticate
authenticity
autonomously
availability
avariciously
bacchanalian
backbreaking
backwardness
bacteriology
bantamweight
battleground
begrudgingly
belligerence
belligerency
benefactress
Where is writing originated from?
since people were able to communicate via written word letters have been transported by messengers to convey the messages of people who could not themselves speak with the other person.
The oldest form of writing I think is the cuneiform of the Assyrians and the Egyptian's hieroglyphs.
My lover calls "natural dance" a dance we perform before getting busy. We put on music, and just throw ourselves around the room with increasing abandon, until we have to get into bed.
It means to move your body to the beat of music and use different styles and moves to put on a beautiful display of your inner you.
What system of writing did they use in ancient Africa?
The ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs were one of the writing systems but the writing systems of Africa refer to the current and historical practice of writing systems on the African continent, both indigenous and those introduced. There are writings systems of Africa that are very well known and some that aren't. Some of these writing systems may date back to the BCE era. One of the more famous is the Meiotic system of writing dating all the way back to 700 BCE to 500 A.D., this mysterious script which scholars are still trying decipher also gave rise to the Old Nubian Script which was used in the Nubian Middle Age period. Ancient Africa has the world's oldest and largest collection of ancient writing systems. Evidence of such dates to pre-historic time, and can be found in various regions of the continent. By contrast, Europe's oldest writing, Greek was not in use until c. 1400 BC and is largely derived from older African scripts. The oldest Asian writing, cuneiform dates to the reign of Judea of Lagash (2144 - 2124 BC).
What is the oldest known text in the world?
>as far as i know [which is not at all] the oldest in tact document we have collected are the dead sea scrolls<
I need to take exception to that answer. Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls aren't what could be considered "intact" documents, being mostly fragmentary. More to the point, the earliest of the Scrolls only date from about 150 BC, and we have -much- older documents than that.
Allegedly the oldest written document ever discovered is a Sumerian cuniform document (written on a clay tablet), and it is a recipe for beer. This claim has been made in a number of places (notably the Beer Institute of America), and is often repeated, though I have been unable to track down an original source for the claim.
The 12 tablets of the Epic of Gilgamesh date from about the 7th century BCE. Here's a snippet from Wikipedia,
"The library is an archaeological discovery credited to Austen Henry Layard; most tablets were taken to England and can now be found in the British Museum, but a first discovery was made in late 1849 in the so-called South-West Palace, which was the Royal Palace of king Sennacherib (705 - 681 BC).
Three years later, Hormuzd Rassam, Layard's assistant, discovered a similar "library" in the palace of King Ashurbanipal (668 - 627 BC), on the opposite side of the mound. Unfortunately, no record was made of the findings, and soon after reaching Europe, the tablets appeared to have been irreparably mixed with each other and with tablets originating from other sites. Thus, it is almost impossible today to reconstruct the original contents of each of the two main "libraries".
What this mean s is that the record we have of Gilgamesh can only be dated to the time of the tablets themselves, not the dates in the story.
It does not seem unlikely, however, as the oldest documents we have that can be verified are indeed Sumerian. The "Epic of Gilgamesh," for example, is widely acknowledged as being the oldest know complete story written down, and it appears on 12 Sumerian clay tablets which date from somewhere between 2150-2000 BC.
There are some earlier fragmentary Summerian fragments that go back as far as 2500 BC, and these are probably the oldest written documents of which we are currently aware. The beer recipe in question is one of these fragments, so it could well be the oldest written document known, and if not that, it is certainly the oldest written -recipe- known.
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/general.php
http://www.rsc.org/ebooks/archive/free/BK9780854045686/BK9780854045686-00001.pdf
Addendum:
The Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, c. 2200 BCE during the Sixth dynasty of Egypt is claimed to be the oldest book in the world still existing.
The oldest written _New World_ (western hemisphere) document currently known is a recently discovered stone slab tentatively dated to about 900 BC.
http://anthropology.net/2006/09/14/oldest-writing-in-new-world-discovered/
The oldest _English_ document known to exist is a list of accounts dating from the 6th century AD, during the reign of the Anglo-Saxon King Aethelberht of Kent.
The oldest complete _literary_ document in English is the epic poem Beowulf, the earliest version (yet discovered) of which dates from approximately the 10th century AD. There may be some fragmentary poems which are a bit older.
"English," in these cases, means /Old/ English.
What was the spanish religion in 1579?
Spain was mostly Catholic, like los conquistadores. They ended up killing a lot of the mayans, Aztecs and incas who were living there already.
What does talking in the first person mean?
Speaking in the second person is when the main person of interest is referred to as "you". For example, in a narrative, instead of saying, "I jumped," or "He jumped," you would say, "You jumped". In conversation, when you speak to someone you are often speaking in the second person when you refer to someone as "you". A common example of writing in the second person would be a letter.
What is the origin of the expression neat as a pin?
In the early 19th. Century, the development of mass production guaranteed a uniformly high quality and finish of consumer products. Formerly hand-made and thus frequently irregular, now, pins were consistently well made and finished.
Who created the Korean alphabet?
It was created in the Joseon Dynasty and was coined by Ju Sigyeong in 1446
king segong
What major themes did writes of the 1920s focus on?
The themes of artists and writers during the 1920's was mainly influenced by European art movements, many modernists of America were subjected to this art to create new art. There was a great deal of variance of artistic styles whether it had to do with art or writing. Each writer or artist wanted to express and show there turn on modern experience of the period. Some types of artistic styles were bold and colorful impressionism, realism, and cubism. Many writers and poets were also aiming to show the positive effects of modernism others concentrated on revealing the negative.
What did Christine de Pizan do?
Christine de Pizan believed that women were important to society and made contributions to society. She believed that the roles of women were distinct from those of men and did not write about equality for women but she wanted respect for women and their roles.
When did the first book appear?
The first book appeared many thousands of years ago-actually on scrolls.
Use idiosyncrasy in a sentence?
All people have at least one idiosyncrasy that makes them a little different.
Her habit of using "like" in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies.
Raghu uses lot of hand movement in his speech. This is one of his idiosyncracies from the rest of the speakers.
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What was the first written word known?
Pre-Harappan poetry discovered by Richard Meadows of Harvard University. There is a stone piece with writings found in Karanovo, Bulgaria, that is 6,300 y.o. Yet, there is another stone piece with writings on it, again found in Bulgaria - Gradeshnitsa. It is 6800 y.o. Both are considered to be the oldest writings in Europe and in the World.
