History of writing

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Matemáticas Social science Flashcards on History of writing, created by María Rodríguez Domínguez on 10/02/2015.
María Rodríguez Domínguez
Flashcards by María Rodríguez Domínguez, updated more than 1 year ago
María Rodríguez Domínguez
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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. 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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