Western Civilization I / Unit 18 WC1 1718 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Join: From Alphabet to Print
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The idea
The Phoenician alphabet of sound signs needed no scribal class, the Greeks adapted it about eight hundred, Rome inherited it, Charlemagne's scribes gave it spaces and cases, and Gutenberg's press of the fourteen fifties multiplied it. One technology of the word.
In practice
Entries 0118, 0202, 0915 and 1211 own the pieces.
Where people slip
Print is the Reformation's medium. The join runs into unit 15.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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