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Potential Sources
Fischer, Steven Roger. History of writing. Reaktion books, 2003.


 * 85% of the world's population Is literate (can write) (pg.7)
 * Latin/ The Latin alphabet is used in hundred's of languages, making it extremely important to writing. (pg.7)
 * There are Three Writing Criteria
 * For writing to be considered complete it must have a purpose or some sort of meaning. Basically something has to be communicated in the text.
 * Complete writing has to have some sort of which are made on some sort of surface (wether physical or electronic)
 * The symbols used int he complete writing must mimic speech so it's possible to communicate.
 * (pg. 12)

Feldherr, Andrew, and Grant Hardy, eds. The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to AD 600. OUP Oxford, 2011.



Daniels, Peter T., and William Bright, eds. The world's writing systems. Oxford University Press on Demand, 1996.


 * Mesopotamians and Egyptians invented writing around the same time Independently of each other (around 3200 BC) (pg.5)
 * The Mesopotamian writing was found in the city of Uruk on about 5 thousand clay tablets (pg.5)

Seeley, Christopher. "A history of writing in Japan." (2000).


 * Kojiki and Nihon Shoki both are some of the oldest pieces of writing in Japan and both continue their own version of how writing was introduced to the Japanese archipelago.
 * Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book are some of the oldest and most well known examples of the use and development of the hiraganas script in Japanese ( pg.71)
 * Tale of Genji is also considered one of the worlds oldest novels
 * https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Tale-of-Genji