<span>Alphabet letters are easier to use in setting type compared to Chinese characters because any sounds we can think can be observed just by using combinations of letters. Ancient written languages such as Chinese depict ideas. There are more than fifty thousands of different characters in a Chinese written language. However, the alphabet only has 26 letters. </span>
<span>A turning point is a specific, significant moment when something begins to change. Turning point in the history is an event followed by big and important change (political change, social change, ...). </span>Periodization is determining why and how historians divide up history.
Turning points are important in the process of periodization because <span>they mark the beginning and ending of different periods (C).</span>
They first came a long time ago
