Writing Technologies of the Near and Far East
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Professor Mindy McAdams's presentation about the invention of paper, Chinese language, Indian scripts and Arabs in Samarkand.
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Writing Technologies of the Near and Far East
- 1. Writing Technologies In the Near and Far East Presentation by Mindy McAdams MMC 2265 Week 4, Thursday
- 3. Writing on Wood and Bamboo c. 550 B.C.E.
- 4. Writing on bamboo slips may have begun as early as 1800 B.C.E. and continued until about 256 C.E.
- 9. The “Silk Road” – famed overland trade route (notice Samarkand ) Length: 5,000 miles
- 10. With 100 years of Muhammad's death. Islam had swept across the Near East, along the African coast and into Spain. It had reached its greatest extent by about 850 C.E. Samarkand is in present-day Uzbekistan
- 13. Indus Valley location (top inset)
- 14. The ancient Indus script (seen here on fired clay seals) has not been deciphered
- 16. Sanskrit language written in various writing systems used today in India
- 17. Writing Technologies In the Near and Far East Presentation by Mindy McAdams University of Florida