Cuneiform amp Hieroglyphics Allows us to record history and religious texts and to create literature Essential to the spread of and the advancement of ideas Writing ID: 260508
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The World’s First Writing Systems
Cuneiform & HieroglyphicsSlide2
Allows us to record history,
_______
and religious texts and to create literature.Essential to the spread of ________________ and the advancement of ideas
WritingSlide3
Began in
________________
around 3500 BCE1st developed to record exchange of goods & items being ______________________
Only _________________ words represented
PictogramsSlide4
Written with a stylus in
_______
clayEvolved from pictograms as need arose to represent ___________ ideasPriests were the 1
st scribes, but it became a separate ______________
Scribes had _______ social standing & held important government officesSpread to Egypt & ______________ CuneiformSlide5
Deciphered by Henry Rawlinson from an
____________________
on the Behistun RockDescription of Persian King Darius I in ____ languagesRawlinson compared the old
____________________ text to the cuneiform to translate it
Unlocking CuneiformSlide6
Fully developed by
______
BCEAbout _______ characters (100 ideograms + 600 phonograms)Used for
____________ writing by priests____________ for everyday use
Hieratic: simplified characters more suitable for __________ writing with a brush or reed pen on wood or papyrusHieroglyphsSlide7
By
______
BCE hieratic had evolved into demoticUsed by scribes for ____________ & record keepingUse of hieroglyphs
______________ with Egyptian empire
DemoticSlide8
Rosetta Stone was discovered by
________________
army in 1799Describes honours bestowed on a ____________ king of Egypt in 195 BCE in hieroglyphs, demotic & Greek
Translated by Jean-François Champollion
Unlocking HieroglyphsSlide9
Champollion compared the Greek name of the king with a cartouche
(__________
with a line on one side that contains a royal name) from the hieroglyphsExamining other cartouches, he began to decipher the common
__________________ represented by the characters
Unlocking Hieroglyphs