Journey of Paper
Q.1. What was the form of the first writing?
Q.2. What replaced the pictures as writing used by early man?
Q.3. Who were the first to develop a proper system of writing?
Q.4. Where did Sumerians wrote their signs and symbols?
Q.5. What was the script developed by Sumerians called?
Q.6. By what name the Egyptians called their script?
Q.7. Which countries still use signs and symbols in their scripts?
Q.8. Where was the oldest script in India found?
Q.9. Who developed the Brahmi and the Kharoshti script?
Q.10. Most Indian scripts derived from which script?
Q.11. Which script is used to write Hindi?
Q.12. On what the most languages in the world today are based?
Q.13. What is Roman alphabet?
Q.14. How did early man count his animals?
Q.15. Who were the first to use fingers for counting?
Q.16. The numbers that we use today belong to which system?
Q.17. Describe the journey of the Arabic system.
Q.18. The Arab call the Arabic system by which name?
Q.19. What is India's contribution to the science of numerals?
Q.20. On what thing the writing was done in ancient times?
Q.21. Where did the art of making paper begin?
Q.22. How China make paper?
Q.23. The word paper is derived from which word?
Q.24. What is papyrus?
Q.25. Who were called scribes?
Q.26. Who invented the printing press and when?
Q.27. Which was the first book to be printed in a printing press?
Q.28. On what material was the Bible printed for the first time?
Q.29. What were letter types and what was called typesetting?
Q.30. Which advanced technology is used in printing?
Q.31. What has played a key role in spreading and recording knowledge?
Q.32. What is Braille Script and who invented it?
Q.33. What are talkie books?
Q.34. What is the reason for low literacy rate in India?
Q.35. What are the measures taken by government to promote literacy?
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