Chapter 2 review

In class today we basically reviewed what we read in chapter 2.  Chapter 2 was all about alphabets and how they became.  We went into detail about the Greek, Latin, and a little bit of the Korean alphabets.  We also discussed about phaistos disk and how it was one of the first steps to the alphabet.  Phaistos disk was also the first known alphabet and it led to mass printing and printing press.  The last thing we went over in class dealt with the substrates we have learned about this far.  So far we've used clay from Mesopotamia, papyrus from Egypt, and now parchment and vellum from animals skin.  We had a foreshadow in that we will be reading about how the Chinese invented paper.   

What I found really interesting was this whole class today.  I really liked learning about how the alphabets became about.  It was interesting to see the different alphabets and how similar they look to ours today.  

My one question from today who have to be who discovered Phaistos disk?