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3600 BCE
Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk
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Period: 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE
Writing, Crafts, and Pottery produced
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3200 BCE
First Instance of written language in Sumerian
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3200 BCE
Hieroglyphic writing develops in Egypt
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Period: 2890 BCE to 2670 BCE
Seshat first mentioned as goddess of writing and measurement in the 2nd Dynasty of the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt
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2500 BCE
Beginning of literature in Sumerian
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Period: 2285 BCE to 2250 BCE
Life of Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon of Akkad, and world's first author known by name
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Period: 2150 BCE to 1400 BCE
The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets
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2000 BCE
Minoan hieroglyphic script is invented
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Period: 1900 BCE to 1600 BCE
Composition of The Descent of Inanna
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1700 BCE
Minoan Linear A script
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Period: 1640 BCE to 1700 BCE
Written form of the Atrahasis Myth of the Great Flood
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1600 BCE
Canaanite alphabet
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1000 BCE
Jiaguwen Script develops in China
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Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE
Writing develops in China during the Shang Dynasty
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Period: 1500 BCE to 500 BCE
The Vedic Period in India
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Period: 1500 BCE to 1100 BCE
The Rig Veda written, mentioning the god Rudra (Shiva) for the first time
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1450 BCE
Linear B script developed at Mycenae
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1400 BCE
Ugaritic alphabet of 30 letters is invented
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1100 BCE
Phoenician alphabet develops
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1000 BCE
Death of Ahiram (or Ahirom) of Byblos, whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet
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Period: 1000 BCE to 700 BCE
Dazhuan Script develops in China
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800 BCE
Earliest examples of Greek alphabetic script
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700 BCE
Xiaozhuan Script develops in China
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Period: 647 BCE to 629 BCE
Extensive collection of clay tablets acquired known as Ashurbanipal's Library at Nineveh
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Period: 600 BCE to 800 BCE
The Zapotec Period in which writing, mathematics, and astronomy were disseminated. Calendar developed.
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500 BCE
Lishu "Clerky Script" develops in China
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196 BCE
The Rosetta Stone was made, a stela carrying a priestly decree from the reign of Ptolemy V in three languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek script
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250
Soon after people started giving other people papyrus with writing on it. They started letters!
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250
In the year 2500 B.C. the Egyptians found a simpler writting surface, the papyrus plant.
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300
The start of writting words began in 4th millennum B.C.
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Sep 18, 1200
The first paper was made almost 2 thousand years ago, by the Chinese. The Chinese kept it a secret from the rest of the world using papyrus. Until it was brought to the 8th century, by 1150 paper was a common use in Europe.
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Jun 22, 1400
The first scroll was made by a Roman emperor.
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Aug 22, 1400
In the 14th century pencils became a common writting tool.
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Nov 22, 1400
The Roman emperor Trajan, commanded the positus to deliver important papers . This is where the word post it comes from.
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Dec 22, 1400
The Roman emperor Trajan, commanded the positus to deliver important papers . This is where the word post it comes from.
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In 1840 Great Britain made the first prepaid stam nationwide, postal service. Soon after other countries had similar systems.
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The United States introduced a limited postal servie in August 1842.
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Computer is invented
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Email was invited in the late 1970's and it became part of people everyday lives in the 1990's.
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Egyptologist from Yale University found a clay tablet with the story of King Scorpion written on it.
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Emojis were invented
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People send emails because its faster than writing letters, but people still send letters a lot.
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Future of Writing
I think the future of writing will no longer involve pencil and paper and will all be electronic -
Future of Writing (Other Possibilities)
Writing could be eliminated all together. We could speak and have it typed for us and sent to the person. The future is very bright!