The Origins of Writing

From the passage, one can conclude that modern writing developed in sequence from

A symbol used to convey an idea through a picture is a

Which of these expresses an opinion.

The letters of our alphabet stand for

Choose the correct answer.

Sumerian cuneiform writing, invented more than five thousand years ago, was made up of

The first alphabet is thought to have been invented by

In the context of this passage, which of these is a good synonym for the word convey?

A likely advantage of a modern pictograph over linguistic writing, is that a pictograph

Semite and Phoenician writing represented advances over Sumerian and Egyptian writing because

One can conclude that people have conveyed ideas for tens of thousands of years

Compared with pictographs, writing that represents language

Unlike pictographs, linguistic writing expresses