1522: (Basically) No Writing Systems in North America Feb 12, 2019

North of Mesoamerica, there are no independent writing systems from before European contact in the Americas. For reference, the Greek island of Crete has two writing systems unique to that bit of land, and the section of North America in question is about 2 millions times bigger. This deficiency however, is true of many cultures that lacked large-scale trade and dedicated systems for storage. Indeed, increased trade after the arrival of Europeans, both with other tribes and with the Europeans led to the creation of several native writing systems, ranging from hieroglyphs to alphabets and syllabaries.
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