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Rare card · History
History of writing, a Rare card
The history of writing traces the development of writing systems and how their use transformed different societies.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 92
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 178 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
History of writing quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History of writing card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
True writing, where the content of ______ utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development.
Answer
linguistic. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. From the History of writing article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Alexander von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt 93 · History of England 90 · History of writing 86 · Sergei Korolev 82 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The use of writing – as well as the resulting phenomena of literacy and literary culture in some historical instances – has had myriad social and psychological consequences.
- Each historical invention of writing, the first being within the last 6,000 years, emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language, and only a subset of spoken languages have been represented in writing.
- True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of writing article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 92: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
How to get History of writing
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of writing (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ian Remsen, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
