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Module 1 Flashcards

1
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Earliest VERSION of written communication

A

pictures and simple images

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2
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What groups used CAVE PAINTINGS in early society?

A

elders, leaders, shamans

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3
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Who said that “…paintings as hunting magic, meant to increase the number of animals…”

A

Abbe Breuil

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4
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What were used by humans to mark the walls of caves?

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  • Charcoal
  • Iron oxide
  • Manganese oxide
  • Yellow ochre
  • Hematite mixed with animal fat
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5
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Concept, object, activity, place, or event via ILLUSTRATION

A

pictogram

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6
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Graphical symbol representing an IDEA rather than a group of letters

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ideogram

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7
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Single grapheme representing a word or a morpheme (unit of language); combined with other symbols to make a coherent thought

A

logogram

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8
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Image that actually represents a word or parts of words; uses sounds of word-image relationships

A

rebus

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9
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Fertile Crescent; now known as Iraq

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Mesopotamia

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10
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Who made the CUNEIFORM

A

Sumerians

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11
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Used ideographs and iconography to represent abstract concepts; used pictures to represent sound

A

Cuneiform

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12
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Consisted of pictograms that depicted objects or beings combined together to designate ideas, phonograms denote sounds, and determinatives to identify categories

A

Hieroglyphs

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13
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What are hieroglyphs mostly used for?

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Religious purposes

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14
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What groups of people in Egypt were allowed to use hieroglyphs?

A

Royalty and religious figures

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15
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What are the three languages in the Rosetta Stone?

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Ancient Egypt hieroglyphs
Egyptian demotic script
Greek

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16
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Who realized that the Rosetta Stone text was a translation of each other?

A

Jean-François Champollion

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17
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What empire further developed the Phoenician Alphabet?

A

European Empire

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18
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What is the source of all modern scripts in Europe that uses geometric structure and order to letters

A

Greek alphabet

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19
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Rounder writing system

A

uncial

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20
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What language was made entirely out of consonants and was the basis of the Greek Alphabet?

A

Phoenician Alphabet

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21
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What empire used the Greek Alphabet as a foundation of their uppercase alphabet?

A

Roman Empire

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22
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Origin of Roman serifs

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Believed that is where the chiseled mark begins and where the letter ends

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23
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Imaginary line that the letters would “sit” upon
that created a more uniformed, clean aesthetic

A

baseline

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24
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Written carefully and slowly with a flat pen with stately proportions and clear legibility

A

Capitalis Quadrata

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25
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Condensed letterforms that were written quickly and saved some space

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Capitalis Rustica

26
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Why was the Capitalis Rustica created?

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Done due to expensive parchment and papyrus

27
Q

What is the precursor to lowercase letters?

A

Miniscule Letters

28
Q

What was the alphabet used by the Arams that is read right to left?

A

Aram/Aramaic Alphabet

29
Q

Where did the Aramaic alphabet deviate from?

A

Northern Semitic Script

30
Q

What was the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet?

A

Ancient Aramaic
Official/Royal Aramaic (Asyrian)
Aramaic Alphabet

31
Q

What is the basis of written languages/alphabets such as pi and baybayin ?

A

Sanskrit

32
Q

How many consonants does the Hebrew alphabet have?

A

22 consonants (dashes and dots to indicate vowel sounds)

33
Q

Who created the concept of zero?

A

Arabia

34
Q

What is the sheet-like writing substrate created by reeds across the Nile River?

A

Papyrus

35
Q

Who owned the papyrus in the ancient times?

A

Rich and/or the government

36
Q

What is the South Asian version of the papyrus?

A

Palm Leaf manuscript

37
Q

What are some problems with the palm leaf manuscript?

A

Fragile, crumbling, rots

38
Q

What kind of material is used to create parchment?

A

Skin of young sheep or goat

39
Q

What is parchment cured in to preserve it and remove its hair?

A

Brine

40
Q

What writing substrate is made from the skin of CALVES?

A

Vellum

41
Q

What is the best writing substrate?

A

Vellum

42
Q

Where did paper originate from?

A

China

43
Q

Who is credited as the inventor of paper?

A

Cai Lun

44
Q

What is the name of the battle between the Ottoman Empire and Tang Dynasty that caused paper-making accessible out of China?

A

The Battle of Talas

45
Q

Out of China, where was paper first produced?

A

Baghdad, Iran

46
Q

Where is the first paper mill in Europe?

A

Fabriano, Italy

47
Q

What has a reusable writing surface that can be “erased” by flattening the wax with the flat ends of a stylus?

A

Wax tablets

48
Q

What is the first manuscript form?

A

Scrolls

49
Q

Text is written on one side and divide up into readable sections

A

Paginae

50
Q

What describes the content of script in scrolls?

A

Titulus

51
Q

What is the precursor of the normal book?

A

Paginae

52
Q

Folded into half, four pages back-to-back, bound at the back; used for Christian documents

A

Codex

53
Q

Old printing technique used to duplicate documents

A

Xylography

54
Q

What is one of the oldest texts created that was made for universal distribution that had illustrations?

A

Dharani sutra

55
Q

What is a famous Japanese xylography?

A

Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai

56
Q

What was xylography usually used for in Europe?

A

Religious illustrations

57
Q

What is one of the first mass-produced products in Europe using its respective xylography?

A

Playing cards for gambling

58
Q

Who had the idea to mass produce playing cards?

A

Duke of Milan

59
Q

Collection of prints were called…?

A

blocok book, xylographica

60
Q

What book was created during the Black Plague
andthe Dark Ages
Book showing that you have to pay tithe so that you would go to Heaven

A

Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying)

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