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BEFORE 3500 BC
In pre-literate societies, education was achieved through demonstration and copying as the young learned from their elders.Some forms of traditional knowledge were expressed through stories, legends, folklore, rituals, and songs, without the need for a writing system.it is probable that there were already epic poems, hymns to godsn ancient India, the Vedas were learnt by repetition. -
WRITING SYSTEM 3500 BC
writing was developed in about 3500 BC, various writing systems developed in ancient civilizations around the world. -
oldest known alphabet 2000 BC
Later, the world's oldest known alphabet was developed in central Egypt around 2000 BC from a hieroglyphic prototype. -
oracle bone script 1400 BC
In China, the early oracle bone script has survived on tens of thousands of oracle bones dating from around 1400-1200 BC in the Shang Dynasty.
Out of more than 2500 written characters in use in China in about 1200 BC, as many as 1400 are identifiable as the source of later standard Chinese characters -
maya script 3rd century
The one to be deciphered the most is the Maya script. The earliest inscriptions which are identifiably Maya date to the 3rd century BC.
Writing was in continuous use until shortly other surfaces used for early writing include wax-covered writing boards (used, as well as clay tablets, by the Assyrians), sheets or strips of bark from trees (in Indonesia, Tibet and the Americas),[13] the thick palm-like leaves of a particular tree, the leaves then punctured with a hole and stacked together like -
vowels 340 ad
During the Axumite Kingdom of around 340 AD that the alphabet gained the vowel forms and started to be written from left to right. -
Phoenician writing system 11th century
The Phoenician writing system was adapted from the Proto-Canaanite script in around the 11th century BC, which in turn borrowed ideas from Egyptian hieroglyphics.
This script was adapted by the Greeks A variant of the early Greek alphabet gave rise to the Etruscan alphabet, and its own descendants, such as the Latin alphabet. Other descendants from the Greek alphabet include the Cyrillic script, used to write Russian, among others.
