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Written Word

By alyssa.tulloch
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Cuneiform

    Was first developed by Sumerians and written in clay as picture/patterns, also know as pictographs.
  • Period: 2285 BCE to 2250 BCE

    Mesopotamian Priestess Enheduanna

    First writer known by name, she recorded events and religious beliefs. Literature
  • 2150 BCE

    Epic of Gilgamesh

    Epic of Gilgamesh
    First story to be written.
  • 1400 BCE

    Alphabetic System

    Alphabetic System
    Deciphered in 1952

  • Computer

    Computer
    Charles Babbage was the first person to make a computer to look like our modern day computers. At this time computers were already invented but they were big and didn't have letters/keys to write.

  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    Christopher Latham Sholes made a typewriter that made it easier to write without a pen, it was fast and efficient.

  • Where we'll be

    Most languages would die out. Considering the rate of how we treat the world I don't think we'd have the materials or community to communicate with. By that time as a human race we'd need to have one common language to communicate with.