Matemáticas Social science Flashcards on History of writing, created by María Rodríguez Domínguez on 10/02/2015.
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WRITING
Writing was invented in the Sumerian city of Uruk around 3300 BC
Pictographic writing
1st kind of writing. It was cuneiform.
Donkey - burro
Orchard - huerto de árboles frutales
Ideographic writing
It's the second kind of cuneiform writing
Phonetic writing
Each symbol corresponds to a sound or syllable
Process of writing
The Rosetta Stone
Found in: Egypt
Found by: Pierre-François Bouchard
Famous by: thanks to it, now we can "read" the Egyptian hieroglyphics
The Hammurabi's Code
"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"
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
The alphabetic writing: from Phoenician alfabet until our writing
The second kind was the Greek alphabet; they introduced vowels in the Phoenician alphabet.
