Early Civilization
Paper and Writing
Books & Alphabet
Asian Contribution
Illuminated Manuscript
100
What are elementary pictures or sketches used to represent something?
What are Pictographs
100
Picture-writing system of the Egyptians (Greek for 'sacred carving') and consisting of objects or people.
What are hieroglyphs
100
Funerary papyri commisioned by Egyptians that is a written journey to the afterlife.
What is 'The Book of the Dead
100
It's considered the highest art form in China and the last phase in the evolution of Chinese writing.
What is calligraphy
100
It gave the vibrant luminosity of books being literally illuminated.
What is gold leaf?
200
An abstract writing form that evolved from pictographs? It triangular tipped stylus (wedged) in the clay to make these.
What is Cuneiform
200
Uncovered by Napoleon's troops in 1799, allowed Jean-Francois Champollion's to realize hieroglyphics as a language, and created the ability for others to unlock the mysteries of Egyptian culture hidden in the hieroglyphics.
What is The Rosetta Stone
200
A revolutionary design format that replaced the scroll, a predecessor to the modern book.
What is the codex
200
The earliest known Chinese writing.
What is Bone-and-Shell Script ‘Chiaku-wen’
200
A writing room where a scrittori's word was supreme.
What is a scriptorium?
300
What is a carved stone used for commemorative purposes.
What is Stele
300
A paper-like substrate made by the Egyptians and grew along the Nile river.
What is papyrus
300
This text records the complete history of the world until 1493
What is Nuremberg Chronicles
300
The oldest surviving printed manuscript that convey's Buddha's revelations to his follower Subhuti.
What is the 'Diamond Sutra'
300
Considered 'classical style' because of its rich colors and illusion of space, it's the earliest surviving illustrated manuscript from the early Christian era.
What is the 'Vatican Vergil'
400
What is viewed as an initial form of printing because it allowed images to be reproduced?
What is Mesopotamian cylinder seals
400
Considered magical and sacred during prehistoric times and had emblems carved in their likeness for identification seals.
What is the Scarab Beetle
400
The infancy period of book printing.
What is incunabula
400
This country is known to have invented paper and wood block printing.
What is China.
400
Abstract and complex, this design is vast with geometric patterns that twist and weave and fill the space with thick textures and bright colors.
What is Celtic design
500
The oldest extant artifact combining words and pictures on the same surface.
What is The Blau Monument
500
A more rounded writing style, it showed how different writing tools and substrates produce different forms.
What is Unicals
500
This is an early example of the alphabet system used by Romans.
What is the Trajan Column
500
Seals created during hte Han Dynasty that were made by carving calligraphic characters into a flat surface of jade, silver, gold or ivory and used similar to modern-day rubber stamps.
What is The Han dynasty / Chops
500
An illuminated manuscript Gospel book in Latin, containing the 4 Gospels of the New Testament.
What is The Book of Kells
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