Sentences with phrase «pictographic writing systems»

and read some history and think about iron instead of copper / bronze, phonetic instead of pictographic writing systems, decimal systems instead of other archaic number systems, using coal instead of wood, mineral oil instead of whale oil, Haber - Bosch instead of chilean saltpeter, Fischer - Tropsch instead of drilling for oil, Off shore oil drilling etc..

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Such techniques as building with rectangular sun - dried mud - bricks, imprinting clay with cylinder - seals, the use of certain new styles of ornamentation, and the first attempts at a pictographic system of writing have been traced by some scholars to a Mesopotamian source.