Time line early
Time line 1200 - 1800
Time line 1800 - 1900
TIme line 1900 - 2000
Time line 2000 - 2100
45,000 B.C.E. 20,000 B.C.E. Cave drawings: could have been warnings, messages, recorded history, maps,
Oral traditions:
Notched sticks: Rope quipu: Wampum:3500 B.C.E. Cuneiform: wedge shaped, Sumerians, Tigris-Euphrates Rivers, Mesopotamia, stone was scarce so used clay tablets and a stylus, created pictograms and ideograms, open hand = peace, closed hand = war, crown, dish... Later started to use phonograms.
Gilgamesh, one of the oldest stories 4000 years old.
Hieroglyphics: sacred carvings, carved, painted, later on papyrus.3000 B.C.E. Papyrus: laid strips of papyrus crisscross on a flat stone, treated it with a gum solution, pressed and pounded, polished, and added to a continuous scroll. Wrote with reed brushes. 1400 B.C.E. China writing on bones - Oracle bones Shang China 1270 B.C.E. Syria encyclopedia 770 B.C.E. Hebrew and Arabic created first alphabet, Phoenicians didn't have vowels, borrowed from the Egyptians, Greeks took some sounds from the Phoenicians and developed the first language to represent all sounds with 24 letters. First two letters of Greek alphabet: alpha and beta, 50 B.C.E. China write on bamboo, silk, wood Greeks created more than an alphabet, Wrote excellent myths, plays, stories, politics, science, philosophy, and literature. Hercules, Theseues, Olympians, 200 B.C.E. Codex, skins, vellum, or parchment, more durable and easier to write on and fasten into a book or make a better scroll, monks copied into a book and what they put into it was the manuscript. B.C.E. C.E.
105 C.E. China paper, Moslems used in 500, Italy 1270, Europe 1300 Romans: copied books, wrote on wood tablets that were covered with wax. Latin word liber is root word for library. Book comes from boc, Anglos Saxon word for beech, since they carved letters into slabs of beech bark. 220 Chinese invented wood block printing on textiles Canterbury tales 868 First book Chinese - Diamond Sutra - printed with wood block printing 990 - 1051 Chinese invented ceramic movable type. 640?-70? Aldhelm abbot of Malmesbury, First to write lesson books in either rhymed or question-and-answer form. 1033-1109 Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote an encyclopedia on manners and customs, natural science, children's duties, morals, and religious precepts. To instruct and instill principles of belief and conduct. 1050-114? Scroll of Animals, Toba Sajo. 1300-1500 Chinese movable type first wood then metal. Was tedious because it required thousands of characters to complete a book. 1455 Movable type and the press (probably adapted from a wine press) were used by Gutenberg to complete the first printed book with this method: Bible. First used wood blocks, later metal plates, used for religious stories, and playing cards.
