HISTORY 101: WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1500

a. Origins of writing go back thousands of years to pictures. b. Pictographs evolved into cuneiform writing. c. Pictures were combined to express complex meanings. d. Pictures were simplified to signs. e. Signs were used to represent sounds. f. Sumerian writing was complex and few were literate. g. Formal schools taught writing and much else. 6. ................
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