FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
THE INCA CIVILIZATION
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A form of writing using pictures rather than letters.
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Pipes or channels designed to carry water from a distant source.
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Military officers who were very strict.
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How goods and services are produced.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hieroglyphics is a writing system invented in Egypt around 5000 years ago. It is the second oldest form of writing, originating a few hundred years after … cuneiform, which uses wedge-shaped characters and was devised by the Sumarians of Mesopotamia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hieroglyphics uses pictures, but it isn’t picture writing. Instead, some hieroglyphs signify sounds in the ancient Egyptian language, just as the characters in the Roman alphabet do. Others are ideographic signs, which represent concepts but don’t have a sound attached.
Detailed explanation-3: -hieroglyphic writing, system that employs characters in the form of pictures. Those individual signs, called hieroglyphs, may be read either as pictures, as symbols for objects, or as symbols for sounds.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hieroglyphic text uses many symbols to represent entire words, but it also has symbols for single letters. These roughly correspond to the 26 letters of the English alphabet. Egyptian also has signs for the sounds ‘sh’ (as in ‘ship’) and ‘ch’ (as in ‘chip’ and ‘Charlie’).
Detailed explanation-5: -Hieroglyphics is a writing system that uses pictures and symbols instead of letters and words. It is most often associated with the ancient Egyptians. However, other groups, including the Maya, used similar writing systems. Each symbol in hieroglyphic writing is called a hieroglyph.