2500 BC-The valley of the Indus Southwest Asia

The Indus script, written by officials of the Indus Valley, was mainly used for assist in the administration bureaucrats. These seals were carved in soapstone or steatite, the center of which represents a yoga animal or human-like shape perched above and around her formal symbols, short lines or other animal shapes. The meaning and interpretation of these thousands of seals are unknown, but the assumption is for commerce and accounting. These stamps have been mass produced in molds in the religious and ritual objects.

1600 BC-Chinese characters to develop

Ancient Chinese script evolved independently of other early civilizations with a series of deep characters, still in use today. The Chinese writing is not phonetic, so it is possible that officials in different areas of the vast empire able to communicate with each other through writing, although his speech is not understood. Japanese writing system was designed in ancient Chinese characters.

The Phonecians influence in the Greek alphabet

The Phoenicians are credited with developing a writing system that can write without much knowledge and memorization of symbolic characters. This phonetic script developed in the 2nd millennium BC created the possibility of a literate community. The Semitic language adopted by the Phoenicians and the Palestinians, and includes examples in Aramaic and Hebrew. This writing system leaving out consonants and vowels is still in use today in the Semitic language of Arabic. The Greeks added the vowels to writing system in the 8th century BC and developed an alphabet of twenty-four letters. The Greek word 'alphabet' comes from 'alpha' and 'Beta', the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet. The Romans developed America Greek alphabet, used throughout the Roman Empire spread throughout Europe and becomes the standard for many writing systems. Due to the simplicity of the writing system more portable and papyrus material, leaves and wood tablature, written correspondence will be starts in everyday life.

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