Mesopotamia
Egypt
The Indus Script
China and Phoenician
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This is the wedge-shaped form of writing that the Sumerians developed.
What is Cuneiform?
100
The Ancient Egyptian form of writing is known as?
What is Hieroglyphics
100
How long ago did the Indus River Valley Civilization exist?
about 4000 years
100
Did the Chinese use pictographs or an alphabet?
Pictographs
100
This is the term for a form of writing where pictures or symbols represent things, actions, ideas, etc.
What are pictographs?
200
This is the name for a professional writer.
Who is a Scribe?
200
This large stone led to the translation of Hieroglyphics
What is The Rosetta Stone?
200
How did we learn to translate the Indus Script?
We Haven't!
200
What are the two spoken forms of Chinese used today?
Cantonese and Mandarin
200
For what two reasons did writing develop?
for economic and administrative purposes (economy/government)
300
Sumerian writing was primary written on these.
What are Clay Tablets?
300
What three languages were on the Rosetta Stone?
Greek, Demotic and Hieroglyphics
300
Is the Indus Script read left to right, or right to left?
right to left
300
Why did Cantonese and Mandarin become so different?
People began to occupy different territories and had little contact as they evolved
300
Why was writing needed to economic purposes?
to record transactions
400
What came first: picture writing or cuneiform?
picture writing
400
How did Hieroglyphics differ from Cuneiform?
Hieroglyphics also represented sounds, not just things and actions
400
Most of the artifacts we have of the Indus Script are on what?
Small seals (about 1 inch by 1 inch)
400
Did the Phoenicians use pictographs or an alphabet?
alphabet
400
What two languages does English come from?
German and French
500
This is a piece of Mesopotamian literature that is about adventures of a Sumerian king
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh
500
Who translated The Rosetta Stone?
Who is Jean Francois Champollion?
500
Name one challenge to deciphering the Indus Script?
1. No Rosetta Stone 2. Unknown language 3. Short Texts
500
Where was the Phoenician civilization located?
Along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea
500
Who won the Massachusetts Republican Primary?
Mit Romney
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