2. Fire saved many samples of the writing (including 660 medical documents translated in the 20's) of which culture? Egypt Mesopotamia Greece Rome
3. The dry climate preserved much of the writing about daily life and ordinary people's legal affairs of which civilization? Egypt Mesopotamia Greece Rome
4. Boustrephedon refers to writing written in columns left to right in one line and right to left the next from left to right from right to left
5. The word "alphabet" comes from The first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet The first two letters of the Roman alphabet the first two letters of the Etruscan alphabet The first two letters of the Greek alphabet
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Attila the HunMajor Gods and Goddesses of the WorldI.E. vs. E.G.Latin TranslationBattle at Thermopylae
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