Cuneiform Writing
Egyptian Writing
Writing around the world
Writing Instruments
People in evolution of Writing
100
These people created cuneiform writing.
Who are Sumerians?
100
This is what Egyptians used as sounds and words.
What are hieroglyphs?
100
The alphabet takes its name from the first two letters in the Phoenician system, ______ and beta, borrowed and adapted by the Greeks.
What is alpha?
100
A cave man used this to scratch pictures onto the walls of his cave dwelling.
What is a sharpened-stone tool?
100
This English Army officer was 1st to translate Cuneiform script
Henry Rawlinson
200
This is the present day name of Sumer, or Mesopotamia.
What is Iraq?
200
This person was in charge of keeping written records in ancient Egypt.
What is a scribe?
200
This culture did not have conventional writing method, but they were believed to keep detailed records using woven ropes and strings.
What are the Inca
200
Early merchants used tokens with pictographs made out of this material to record the quantities of materials traded or shipped.
What is clay?
200
This French scholar was the 1st to publish a translation of the Text found on the Rosetta Stone.
Who was French scholar Jean-François Champollion
300
Sumerians wrote on these.
What are clay tablets?
300
Like Proto-Sinaitic-derived scripts, Egyptians did not write vowels, they wrote only with __________.
What are consonants?
300
Writing developed in these two separate places, at different times in history. (bonus if you know when)
Mesopotamia and Meso America
300
A quill pen is made of this.
What is a bird feather?
300
This man invented the Printing Press and printed the first book using moveable type in 1453.
Johannes Gutenberg
400
The word "cuneiform" came from the Latin word, cuneus, which means ___________?
What is wedge?
400
Egyptian hieroglyphics can be read now because of the translation of this stone.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
400
This was the first printed Book
What is the Diamond Sutra
400
Introduced around 700 A.D, this writing instrument dominated for the longest period in history (over one-thousand years).
What is the quill pen?
400
An inventor from this country is credited with inventing paper.
What is China?
500
Cuneiform writing lasted millennia until it was replaced by this kind of writing, which was much easier to learn and use.
What is alphabetic writing?
500
This is how writing has origins in Africa.
What is Egypt is in Africa?
500
These were there two cultures that developed writing
lowland Maya and Sumerians
500
Plant-fiber paper became the primary medium for writing after Johannes Gutenberg invented this with replaceable wooden or metal letters in 1436.
What is the printing press?
500
Complete the analogy: cuneiform : Sumerians :: hieroglyphs : ___________
What are Egyptians?
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