HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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system of writing in which pictures called hieroglyphs represent objects, concepts, or sounds
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Mesopotamian narrative poem that was first told in Sumer
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region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
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economic system in which goods or services are paid for through the exchange of a token of an agreed value
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Hieroglyphs consist of pictures of familiar objects that represent sounds. They were used in ancient Egypt from about 3100 BCE to 400 CE. In the first part of this lesson, the class creates a pictorial alphabet of its own and then learns and uses the symbols of the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -But likewise the Q, K, and G hieroglyphs identified by Egyptologists. They can also be used to represent each other, as well as the J, CH, and H pronunciation sounds.