Civilizations
This civilization used pictures and symbols in their writing.
Egyptians
Producing words that can be read and understood by someone else
Writing
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A small tool used for writing or drawing.
Stylus
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This style of writing uses characters, not an alphabet.
A piece of written material that provides information.
Document
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This style of writing is written in wet clay tablets.
Cuneiform
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This civilization of great traders created an alphabet that was the start of modern writing.
Phoenicians
A person who writes information down
Scribe
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This civilization painted hieroglyphics on pyramid walls.
Egypt
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The languages of these two civilizations were carved into the Rosetta Stone.
Egyptians and Greeks
Letters of a language that are arranged to make words.
Alphabet
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This civilization used turtle shells and ox bones instead of paper.
Ancient China
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This civilization created the first true alphabet because it added vowels.
Greeks
The time before writing was invented
Prehistory
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