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Importantly, not all these indicators are present in all ancient civilization: e. g. , no writing in ancient south america (peru) quipo: e. g. , little evidence for ostentatious display of power in harappan (indus valley) civilization. most early writing took the form of conventionalized and abstract pictorial" forms. The letter a" for example is thought to descended from a semitic stylized drawing of the head of an ox. similarly the chinese character ri ( sun") at one time more closely resembled the sun. Later developments involve syllabic / alphabetic systems: syllabic written symbol for each syllable. e. g. , cuneiform (mesopotamia) and hieroglyphics (egypt: alphabetic written symbol for each vowel and consonant. e. g. , greek alphabet 22 symbols; roman (latin) alphabet 21 symbols. early metalworking (copper / bronze / iron ages) ca. axes, ornaments and other items traded over a wide area www. notesolution. com: i taly and iberia ca. 300 bc copper smelting: czech republic ca.
