Really? What did they talk about? The Incan quipu are very cool, but it's still debated whether they're actually a writing system, or just economic records.
I definitely agree that India has been short-changed, though we did learn a bit about it when I was in school. One fascinating thing a lot of people don't know is that our European languages are related to the Sanksrit-derived languages of India ('s why they call it the Indo-European group, don'tcha know). Discovering the similarites between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit was not only a major breakthrough in linguistic science, but should also highlight the fact that we're culturally and genetically related to India as well. We were one people as recently as five or six thousand years ago.
I thought of using Linear A, but for some reason thought no one would know about it. Hm.
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Really? What did they talk about? The Incan quipu are very cool, but it's still debated whether they're actually a writing system, or just economic records.
I definitely agree that India has been short-changed, though we did learn a bit about it when I was in school. One fascinating thing a lot of people don't know is that our European languages are related to the Sanksrit-derived languages of India ('s why they call it the Indo-European group, don'tcha know). Discovering the similarites between Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit was not only a major breakthrough in linguistic science, but should also highlight the fact that we're culturally and genetically related to India as well. We were one people as recently as five or six thousand years ago.
I thought of using Linear A, but for some reason thought no one would know about it. Hm.