| A | B |
|---|
| cro-magnon | earliest homosapiens |
| cave paintings | usually large animals by cro-magnons |
| petroglyphs | images cut into rock by Neolithic peoples |
| 10,000 to 12,000 | neolithic using petroglyphs |
| geoglyphs | drawings on the ground |
| pictogram or pictograph | represents a concept or object |
| ideogram | represents an idea |
| calligraphy | good handwriting practiced in China |
| cuneiforms | earliest system of writing |
| sumerians | developed cuneiform |
| hieroglyphic inscriptions | sacred carvings from Egypt |
| Egyptian pictogrphas | evolved into cursive style called hieratic |
| Egyptian demotic | came after hieratic cursive style |
| rosetta stone | allowed translation of hieroglyphsph |
| first alphabet | phoenicians |
| Wadi el-Hol | shows the first Latin A |
| Phoenician alphabet | roots of Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin |
| purple people | phoenicians |
| alphabet for merchants to use | phoenician alphabet |
| first use of vowel | Greeks |
| Greek alphabet | based on Phoenicians with vowels |
| Etruscan | adopted all Greek culture and alphabet |
| Latin | created by the Etruscans and Romans |
| 23 letters | Latin |
| Z was replaced in Latin by? | G |
| Letters left out of Latin | J, U and W |
| J was | I |
| U was | V |
| Z added back | at the end of the Latin alphabet |
| Rustic Capitals | freer-form, more condensed letters |
| codex | simply means book |
| Charlemagne | spread alphabet across the Empire |
| Alcuin | brought the Carolingian minuscule to Empire |
| Church | helped spread the Carolingian script |
| Gothic script | darker, more condensed angular script |
| replaced the Carolingian script | Gothic script |
| Textualis | formal book hand script - Gothic type |
| philologists | lover of words |
| Humanist | reintroduced the classical Latin |
| Blackletter | heavy, dark and almost illegible |
