3e river valley civilization language and communication
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2. 1. Which civilization had to follow Hammurabi’s Code?
2. Which civilization had to follow the 10
Commandments?
3. What did early humans use religion to explain?
4. What do Animist belief?
5. Moses is the prophet for which religion?
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6. Language and writing
were important cultural
innovations.
They helped business,
education, record
keeping, religion, etc.
7. Pictograms were the
earliest written symbols.
Religious or Educational
Purposes
Remember your sweet
cave paintings
8. Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Written on slate,
papyrus, and tomb walls
Symbols stand for
sounds and ideas.
Few people were literate.
Scribes had to keep track
of commercial records
9. Cuneiform was developed
in Sumer (Mesopotamia).
first advanced written
language
hundreds of wedge-shaped
markings pressed into clay
tablets detailed complex
thoughts (literature)
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11. The Phoenicians created
their own alphabet and
written language.
Only used 22 characters
(without any vowels)
Almost everyone could
read!
Basis of the Greek (and all
western languages)
13. In 1799, Napoleon’s army
found the Rosetta Stone.
The Rosetta stone is a stone
slab that translated
Hieroglyphics into Greek
Scholars were able to
translate prayers, hymns,
magic formulas, and
records.