HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Both used letters to represent sounds
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Both began writing as a way to predict the future
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Both used pictographs
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Both began writing as a way to keep track of trade
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform: Cuneiform was a writing system used in Ancient Mesopotamia by Sumerians around 3500 BC. It is a syllabary system, which means that every digit represents a sound or syllable.
Detailed explanation-2: -Early Writing Technologies The earliest writings in China were found on ox scapulae, tortoiseshells, and bronzes during the Shang dynasty. Dated from around 1400-1200 B.C.E, the inscriptions on bones and shells-called “oracle bones"-recorded divination used by the Shang royal house.
Detailed explanation-3: -Writing emerged in many different cultures in the Bronze Age. Examples are the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Cretan hieroglyphs, Chinese logographs, Indus script, and the Olmec script of Mesoamerica.
Detailed explanation-4: -The text was written in Akkadian cuneiform, the written language of the conquerors of the Sumerians, which was undeciphered until the mid-1800s.