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Egypt

Region of origin names the place a script first developed. Wikipedia notes the Latin script is "derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia," tracing its earliest known home to a single Greek colony in southern Italy. This dimension shows which regions have given the world their own writing systems.

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3300 BCE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Cuneiform
Wikimedia FoundationHistory, Sumerian pictographs section
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The first unequivocal written documents start with the Uruk IV period, from c. 3300 BC, followed by tablets found in Uruk III, Jemdet Nasr, Early Dynastic I Ur and Susa (in Proto-Elamite) dating to the period until c. 2900 BC.
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