Week 3 Readings

Question 1

What did democratization depend on?

Answer 1

Invention of the alphabet and the organization and maintenance of school instruction in reading

Question 2

What is sometimes criticized about the greek alphabet?

Answer 2

The words became meaningless because symbols lost independent meaning

Question 3

What made possible the construction of Roman literature

Answer 3

Greek models using same type of script

Question 4

What is mnemonic?

Answer 4

Use of verbal and musical rhythm

Question 5

What did Plato argue through Socrates?

Answer 5

Writing has a negative impact on our reliance on memory, weakening the mind

Question 6

During the middle ages, who controlled literacy-based knowledge?

Answer 6

The catholic church

Question 7

Writings from greco-roman antiquity were preserved in _ libraries

Answer 7

Islamic

Question 8

What are phonograms

Answer 8

Sound signs - the sound (main syllable) uttered when the object from a picture is spoken

Question 9

When did the Phoenician alphabet develop?

Answer 9

1500 BC

Question 10

Havelock argued that new literacy from the Greek’s challenged the _ literacy of the ancient empires

Answer 10

Craft