2006-11-09 14:43:01 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Books, newspapers and letters. The people west of the Mississippi used smoke signals and sign language as well. The people in the Andes used knotted strings, as their ancestors had. The people in Africa has special couriers who could memorize a thousand words and run 20 miles barefoot. The people in Polynesia used couriers and fast canoes.
2006-11-09 15:22:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mostly books, newspapers, letters, anything with writing. They also spoke to one another when they saw each other. Colonists in america in 1775 lived in small colonies ( as you know, the 13 original colonies). They had little towns, so a lot of people probably knew each other and they acted as a community.
2006-11-10 01:03:20 · answer #2 · answered by TBT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there was a lot of communication then. Not as we know it. People saw each other at gatherings. Church, barn and house raisings, visits were far and few, probably when gathering in crops they maybe helped each other or stopped on their way into town for supplies which was not often. To communicate with far away places and people they may(you'll need to google this) have had pony express that delivered mail . I don't know the year that started. Otherwise letters went with people that were going that way...say north from VA to Boston. Then someone might send a letter. Then if someone wanted to get a letter to England they would get it to the ship that was going out and hope it got delivered. sometimes it was months before a letter reached the person it was sent to. It hasn't really been that long...what would they think about this now? Check the pony express, I'm not up on my history and dates. Good luck. Of course let's not forget word of mouth!
2006-11-10 00:04:40 · answer #3 · answered by MISS-MARY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is that BC or AD? 1775 BC the Greeks used a phonetic alphabet...1450 AD newspapers appear in Europe... 1455 AD Johannes Gutenberg invented the movable metal type printing press...1714 Henry Mill invented the typewriter...
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2006-11-09 23:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by Captgoody 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Word of mouth and a rudimentary courier service. Newspapers were also distributed. This was the job of the militia and also mobile labour would often bring news, along with people travelling around and about. Most countries had some form of beacon system for emergencies.
2006-11-09 22:49:12 · answer #5 · answered by wilf69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They spoke to each other, they had mail and newspapers. Long distance communication was a tad on the slow side.
2006-11-09 22:46:51 · answer #6 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Letters.
2006-11-09 22:48:19 · answer #7 · answered by iansand 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their voices and newspapers.
2006-11-13 22:48:38 · answer #8 · answered by Candy N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋