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23 Cards in this Set
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Lascaux Caves
Southern France 10,000 BCE |
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Venus of Willendorf
Austria 20,000 BCE |
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Hieroglyphics
3100 BCE Egypt |
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Pictograms
Mesopatamia 3100 BCE |
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Cuneiform
2800 BCE Mesopatamia |
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500 BCE
Hebrew Alphabet Child of Phoenician Alphabet Mesopatamia |
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1000 BCE
Greek Alphabet Greece |
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Greek Alphabet
Boustrophedon "to plow field with an ox" 1000 BCE |
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1000 BCE
Phoenician Alphabet Mesopatamia |
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Roman Alphabet
Capitalis Monumentalis 200 BCE, Italy Trajan's Column |
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Book of the Dead, Egypt
1550- 50 BCE |
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Death of Laocoon
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Vatican Vergil
Italy, 500 AD Rustic Capitals |
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Book of Durrow
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680 AD
Book of Durrow British Isles Half-Uncials, Uncials |
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Douce Apocalypse 1265 AD
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Holy Roman Empire, 1265 AD
Gothic Illuminated Manuscript Black Letter |
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1400 AD
Woodblock print of Ars Moriendi (Art of Dying) Germany Blackletter on Vellum |
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1450 AD
Gutenberg Bible Germany Blackletter |
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1400 AD
Master of Playing Cards Copperplate engraving on paper Germany |
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Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
History of the world from biblical dawn Most Lavishly illustrated printed book 15th century |
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
By Albrecht Durer Germany 1498 Sophisticated woodblock print |
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Fraktur 1517
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Caslon type design
Numbers go below X-Height |
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Baskerville
Capital Q Large Clear numbers |
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Invented in England then used by Americans to rebel against england
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