Tool for ancient writing {A}With time, the record-keepers developed systematized symbols from their drawings. These symbols represented words and sentences but were easier and faster to draw and universally recognized for meaning. The discovery of clay made portable records possible (you can’t ca...
by ancient Chinese people.Some of the ancient symbols can still be seen in today's hanzi. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 (1)考查副词。句意:中国以其古老的文明而闻名,尽管其历史上有许多起伏,但它一直延续到现代。修饰谓语动词is known for应用副词,结合句意和首字母提示,副词widely"广泛地,很大程度上"...
— Colin Low Introduction The wisdom of our ancestors frequently puzzles modern people. In fact, an average person is totally unaware of that wisdom and many of today’s thinkers who study ancient writings do not understand their true meaning. Fig 1. Sample of extinct Akkadian (Cuneiform) writi...
These are the dates for many clay tablets in an early form of cuneiform, a script written by pressing the end of a sharpened stick into wet clay, found at the site of the ancient city of Uruk. The baked clay tablets bore such images as pictorial symbols of the names of people, places...
give clues to the meaning of the Egyptian symbols. The British seized Egypt in 1801 and transported the Rosetta Stone to the British Museum.Scholars carefully studied the writing on the Rosetta Stone,but their work proceeded slowly(5) becauseparts of the stone had broken up. In time,the ...
, men digging out the foundation for a factory in a Chinese village came across an amazing discovery. They found pottery with symbols and markings that were anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 years old. This sparked a debate: were those markings just symbols or did they represent real writing?
It _dates_ (date) back several thousand years to the use of animal bones and shells on which symbols were carved by ancient Chinese people. Some of the ancient symbols can still be seen in today's Hanzi. By the Shang Dynasty, these symbols had become _a_ well-developed writing system....
The common consensus is that writing in China evolved from earlier non-linguistic symbolic systems. During the Late Neolithic period, at the latter half of the 3rd millenum BCE, many symbols or "pictograms" started to be incised on pottery and jades. These symbols are thought to be family ...
symbol是可数名词,所以用复数表泛指,故填symbols。4. 句意:当时,人们生活在不同的地方,导致了许多不同的方言和文字。此处应用现在分词作结果状语,表示自然而然的结果。动词lead与the system developed into different forms为逻辑上的主动关系,故填leading。5. 句意:秦始皇将七大国家统一为一个国家,...
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoa