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Flashcards by María Rodríguez Domínguez, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by María Rodríguez Domínguez
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| WRITING | |
| Writing was invented in the Sumerian city of Uruk around 3300 BC | |
| Pictographic writing 1st kind of writing. It was cuneiform. | Each word corresponds to a symbol. |
| Donkey - burro Orchard - huerto de árboles frutales | The problem of pictographic writing was that with this kind of writing they can't represent abstract ideas, like happiness. |
| Ideographic writing It's the second kind of cuneiform writing | The symbols and their combinations represented concepts |
| Phonetic writing Each symbol corresponds to a sound or syllable | Example: the Egiptian hieroglyphic |
| Process of writing | People wrote on boards made of wet clay, cut with a vegetable slank in form of wedge. |
| The Rosetta Stone | |
| Found in: Egypt Found by: Pierre-François Bouchard Famous by: thanks to it, now we can "read" the Egyptian hieroglyphics | CURIOSITY In the origin, it was in a temple, but in the Middle Age, it was moved for building a fountain. |
| The Hammurabi's Code "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" | It's the oldest set of laws found in the world. |
| It's wroten in a big stele that we can find in the Louvre museum | |
| There were three groups of persons: -Free people or awilum -Servants or mushkenum -Slaves or wardum | Example: If a man kidnaps a son minor of another man, he will be executed. |
| The alphabetic writing: from Phoenician alfabet until our writing | The first was the Phoenician alphabet, a system with no vowels. |
| The second kind was the Greek alphabet; they introduced vowels in the Phoenician alphabet. | It was read like a zigzag: first, to the right; after, to the left, and continue like this in all the text. |
| Cristina González Luca de Tena, Nº 13 1ºESO-D María Rodríguez Domínguez, Nº 18 1ºESO-C |
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