The alphabet takes its name from the first two letters in the Phoenician system, ______ and beta, borrowed and adapted by the Greeks.
What is alpha?
100
A cave man used this to scratch pictures onto the walls of his cave dwelling.
What is a sharpened-stone tool?
100
From which country did the typography called italics originate?
What is Italy?
200
This is the present day name of Sumer, or Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
200
This person was in charge of keeping written records in ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
200
Greeks are credited with adding these to the Phoenician alphabet.
What are vowels?
200
Early merchants used tokens with pictographs made out of this material to record the quantities of materials traded or shipped.
What is clay?
200
This group of people, native to North America, created their own alphabet in 1821.
Who are Cherokees?
300
Sumerians wrote on these.
What are clay tablets?
300
Like Proto-Sinaitic-derived scripts, Egyptians did not write vowels, they wrote only with __________.
What are consonants?
300
These people were the first Europeans to learn to write with an alphabet, and from them alphabetic writing spread to the rest of Europe, eventually leading to all modern European alphabets.
Who are Greeks?
300
A quill pen is made of this.
What is a bird feather?
300
Hieroglyph is a Greek word meaning sacred _______?
What is writing?
400
The word "cuneiform" came from the Latin word, cuneus, which means ___________?
What is wedge?
400
Egyptian hieroglyphics can be read now because of the translation of this stone.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
Greek historian Herotodus, who lived during the 5th century BCE, called the Greek letters "phoinikeia grammata" (φοινικήια γράμματα), which means Phoenician ________.
What are letters?
400
Introduced around 700 A.D, this writing instrument dominated for the longest period in history (over one-thousand years).
What is the quill pen?
400
An inventor from this country is credited with inventing paper.
What is China?
500
Cuneiform writing lasted millennia until it was replaced by this kind of writing, which was much easier to learn and use.
What is alphabetic writing?
500
This is how writing has origins in Africa.
What is Egypt is in Africa?
500
The Greeks adopted their alphabet from this alphabet and made some modifications.
What is the Phoenician alphabet?
500
Plant-fiber paper became the primary medium for writing after Johannes Gutenberg invented this with replaceable wooden or metal letters in 1436.
What is the printing press?
500
Complete the analogy:
cuneiform : Sumerians :: hieroglyphs : ___________