Writing

Writing Timeline

By Kylie0823
  • 3800 BCE

    Oral Traditions

    Oral Traditions
    The earliest form of sharing information was to tell each other without writing anything down at all.
  • 3500 BCE

    Sumerians

    Sumerians
    Sumerians were the first people to create a style of writing. They called it cuneiform and it included lines and shapes
  • 3200 BCE

    Egyptians

    Egyptians
    Not long after cuneiform, the Egyptians created hieroglyphs. They were a combination of pictures and symbols
  • 1550 BCE

    Phoenicians

    Phoenicians
    These were the first people to associate sounds with letters
  • 740 BCE

    Greeks

    Greeks
    The Greeks were the first people to add vowels to the alphabet
  • 117

    Romans

    Romans
    The Romans took over every library collection of those people that they conquered.
  • 476

    Monks

    Monks
    Monks grew bored and began to draw on the outside of their writings, and created calligraphy.