Pictograms (Paleolithic Cave Drawings)
Paleolithic Man
Paleolithic cave drawings allow us to speculate about the daily lives of people in the Paleolithic Era (Old Stone Age)
Cuneiform
Sumer - Mesopotamia
Hieroglyphics
Egypt
Developed because the Egyptians needed to keep records
Phoenician Alphabet
Phoenicians
First written alphabet
Developed to simplify their trading practices
Developed to simplify their trading practices
Meroitic Script
Kingdom of Kush
Hebrew
The Hebrew people - Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
Sanskrit
India
Oracle Bone Script
Early China
Chinese Characters
China
Difficult to learn because there were thousands of different characters
Japanese Characters
Japan
Greek Alphabet
Greece
Latin Alphabet
Rome
Cyrillic Alphabet
Russia
Arabic
Arabian and Islamic Empires
The use of Arabic spread along with the spread of Islam
Nordic Runes
Scandinavians / Vikings
These specific Germanic runes were called Futhark, and had Elder and Younger varieties.
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