Early Civilization
Paper and Writing
Books
Alpha Beta
Asian Contribution
100
What is the visual counterpart to speech?
Writing
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
A set of symbols or characters used to represent the sounds of a spoken language and considered mankind's greatest achievement.
What is an alphabet?
100
It's considered the highest art form in China and the last phase in the evolution of Chinese writing.
What is calligraphy?
200
What is a natural way of communicating ideas and used as an elementary way to record and transmit information?
Drawing pictures
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 predecessor of Hebrew and Arabic.
What is the Aramaic alphabet?
200
The earliest known Chinese writing.
What is bone-and-shell script?
300
What are elementary pictures or sketches used to represent something?
Pictographs
300
Reason why the Egyptian illustrated manuscripts are so special?
What is the 1st time words and images are together for the 1st time to communicate information.
300
This text records the complete history of the world until 1493
What is the 'Nuremberg Chronicles'
300
In the Greek alphabet, letterforms are based on what shapes?
What is the square, triangle and circle?
300
The oldest surviving printed manuscript that convey's Buddha's revelations to his follower Subhuti.
What is the 'Diamond Sutra'?
400
What is an abstract writing form that evolved from pictographs?
Cuneiform
400
A paper-like substrate made by the Egyptians and grew along the Nile river.
What is papyrus?
400
The major communication advancenment between the invention of writing and 20th century electronic mass communications.
What is typography?
400
A more rounded writing style, it showed how different writing tools and substrates produce different forms.
What is Unicals?
400
He is considered the inventor of paper and known as the god of the papermakers.
Who is Ts'ai Lun
500
What is viewed as an initial form of printing because it allowed images to be reproduced?
Mesopotamian cylinder seals
500
Considered magical and sacred during prehistoric times and had emblems carved in their likeness for identification seals.
What is the Scarab Beetle?
500
The infancy period of book printing.
What is incunabula?
500
Thought to be chisel marks made by cleanup strokes as a stonemason finished carving a letter.
What are serifs?
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 are chops?
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