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![Linear A Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17693.png?v=1706776083)
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Linear A Script
Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization centred on Crete during the Bronze Age. Used from around 1850 to around 1450 BCE, the script has never been deciphered. Artefacts bearing Linear A script, most commonly clay tablets, have...
![Linear B Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3394.jpg?v=1709644443)
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Linear B Script
Linear B script was the writing system of the Mycenaean civilization of the Bronze Age Mediterranean. The syllabic script was used to write Mycenaean Greek from c. 1500 to c. 1200 BCE. It was deciphered by Michael Ventris in 1952, and so...
![Greek Alphabet](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3465.jpg?v=1712030343)
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Greek Alphabet
The Greek Alphabet developed from the Phoenician script at some point around the 8th century BCE. The earlier Mycenaean Linear B script, used primarily for lists and inventories, had been lost during the Greek Dark Age, and the technology...
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Estates-General of 1789
The Estates-General of 1789 was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. Summoned by King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to deal with financial and societal crises, it ended with the Third...
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Script
Script is the written expression of a language. Cuneiform, the first script, was invented in Sumer, Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE, hieroglyphics sometime prior to the Early Dynastic Period in Egypt (c. 3150-2613 BCE), and Sanskrit in India during...
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Clay Tablet with Linear A Script
A clay tablet from Zakros, Crete inscribed with Linear A script. Still undeciphered, Linear A script was used by the Minoan civilization from c. 1850 to c. 1450 BCE. (Zakros Archaeological Museum)
![Linear B tablet](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3394.jpg?v=1709644443)
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Linear B tablet
A sample of Linear B script. This piece contains information on the distribution of bovine, pig and deer hides to shoe and saddle-makers.
![Linear B Clay Tablet](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/3390.jpg?v=1709644449)
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Linear B Clay Tablet
Example of a Linear B clay tablet found at Knossos. It records quantities of oil apparently offered to various deities.
![Linear A Script](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6108.jpg?v=1645036204)
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Linear A Script
An example of a Minoan Linear A tablet.
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Antipater (Macedonian General)
Antipater (c. 399-319 BCE) was a Macedonian statesman and loyal lieutenant of both Alexander the Great and his father Philip II of Macedon. As a regent in Alexander's absence, Antipater subdued rebellions and mollified uprisings, proving...