From clay tablets to e-books

What were the first written signs?

• Pictures of animals to record them

• Nubmbers used to keep record of sheep, land and grain

• Letters of the alphabet to make up a word

• Wedge shaped symbols

Ideographic symbols were inscribed in ...

• Wet clay

• Dry clay

• Wet clay tablets

• Papyrus

The pictures eventually became ...

• Sofisticated

• Simplified

• Round shaped symbols

• Simplified into wedge shaped symbols

Today wedge shaped symbols are known as ...

• Cuneiform script

• Manuscript

• Ideoscsipt

• Tablet

Who developed picture wiriting using symbols to express whole words ?!

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Assyrians

• Georgians

Who knew how to write in ancient Egypt?!

• Majority of citizens

• Only a restricted group of professionals

• Only royalty

• Only comanders

Who mastered the art of writing to save knowledge?!

What is the meaning of " r'i " ?!

Who developed the first widely used "One Sign - One Sound" system of writing?

• Phoenicians

• Greeks

• Egyptians

• Sumerians

What did the Greeks create?

• The first alphabet

• the first alphabet with vowels

• the first alphabet with vowels and consonants

• the first alphabet with consonants