...ticularly the printed word have been used. They can let you move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Rom... ...o garnered, preserved, and stored the fruits of education. Troubadours—people able to repeat a thousand words after hearing them just once—delive... ...the lake‘s sandy shores. Hundreds of miles from the nearest seashore, its people probably had no idea that melting of the last ice age had been lift... ...ical limit of a kingdom. A king could impose his will on his troops and people only that far. Scripting Symbols of Shape Our ancestors survived... ...umbers of persons, not just to those within earshot who might repeat what people said. Writing gradually replaced the mnemonics of past civilizatio... ...er alphabet—as opposed to logographic writing‘s thousands of symbols. Asian histories emphasize that development of wood-block printing led to th... ...parallel, winds blow mostly from the Arctic northwest across the interior Asian plateau and release what little moisture they carry onto the norther... ...antly similar to Korean and Japanese but different from Chinese and other Asian tonal languages. (Even today, Turks in Anatolia easily master Korean...