In this report, I am going to discuss how different writing styles from these early civilizations are the same and how they are different. The writing styles I'm going to discuss are Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform, Harappan Pictograms, and Chinese Script. I will also inform you on why they were important. I will start by discussing Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The Egyptian writing system was called hieroglyphics. The Egyptian carved picture symbols on pieces of slate. These pictures symbols were called hieroglyphs, which stood for objects, ideas, and sounds. The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system consists of several hundred picture signs. The signs can be divided into two classes, phonograms and ideograms. .
Phonograms, or signs used to write the sounds of the Egyptian language. The particular sound value of a sign was usually obtained from the Egyptian name for the object represented. Since the Egyptians did not normally write the vowels, only the consonantal "skeleton"" of the word is given although each consonant can be written with a single sign (the alphabet signs), most sound-signs express a series of two or more consonants. Ideograms, or idea-signs, in which each picture stands for the object represented, or for some idea closely connected with the object. The Egyptian writing system was like the Sumerian Cuneiform because scribes wrote them both on slates and tablets. Also, the scribes went to a special school and so did the Sumerian scribes. The Egyptian writing system was like all the other writing systems that used pictograms. Egyptian hieroglyphics were different from all the other writing styles because they would elaborately carve and paint their hieroglyphs for part of a decorative scheme of an Egyptian temple or tomb.
The Sumerian cuneiform was written on clay tablets. The Sumerians writing system is believed to be the oldest in the world dating back to 3100 B.
The history of Egypt begins around the year 3000 BC with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. Under this new ruling dynasty, the first King was Menes, and thirty dynasties would follow (Guardian's Egypt , Ancient Egypt of the Web). It was this time the hieroglyphic wri...
Civilization reached a high level in Egypt at an early period. By 3000 BC two earlier nations had joined to form a single Egyptian nation under a single ruler. ... Religion was a central feature of Egyptian society. ... The Egyptian counting system was decimal. ... This oval was the sign used by the Egyptians for the ``mouth." ...
Egyptian Math The use of organized mathematics in Egypt has been dated back to the third millennium BC. ... Early surveyors found that the maximum error in fixing the length of the sides was only 0.63 of an inch, or less than 1/14000 of the total length. ... It has been discovered that early pyramid builders may have conceived the idea that P equaled about 3.14. ... The Egyptian calendar was introduced about 4241 BC. ... The earliest Egyptian texts were written around 1800 BC. ...
"It is the one and only Wonder which does not require a description by early historians and poets. ... the pyramids great history despite the almost superhuman efforts of the Egyptians. These massive stone structures were built around 4500 years ago on a rocky desert plateau close to the Nile and it is still standing on the egyptian desert to symbolize the greatness of the ancient egyptians. ... Egypt has no specific season for torrist like any other country, because they are there all year long. ... The great pyramids of egypt are undescribable. it can take me days and days to write about th...
Egypt and Mesopotamia The very first civilizations appeared in Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and in Egypt, along the Nile River, between 4000 and 3000 BC. Common to all early civilizations was the belief that the forces of nature were greater and more powerful than those of mortal humans. ... Although all of the early civilizations shared this same viewpoint, belief systems and religious practices differed dramatically from one civilization to another. ... However, like Mesopotamia's unstable climate, its gods were fierce and capricious, unlike Egypt's, ...
The Egyptians did not understand art as it is defined today. ... Egyptian art was very symbolic. ... Egyptians used the size of their sculptures to show the social order. ... Although more than a thousand years separated this sculpture from that of Menkure, the statue of Hatshepsut bears a strong resemblance to earlier work, thus demonstrating the continuity of the Egyptian style. ... The Egyptians never discovered the principals of perspective. ...
The ancient Egyptians thought of Egypt as being divided into two types of land, the "black land" and the "red land." ... Egyptian Historians divide Egyptian history into thirty - one dynasties, regrouped into four periods of political centralization: pre- and early dynastic Egypt (3150-2770 BC), the Old Kingdom (2270-2200 BC), the Middle Kingdom (2050-1786 BC), and the New Kingdom (1560-1087 BC). ... The early Egyptian people grew food by the Nile and lived mainly by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plants. ... In the early Egyptian times, medicine was practiced most often by priests, no...
The population of Egypt is 74,718,797.The Capital of Egypt is Cairo. ... The climate in Egypt is very dry. ... Egypt fought two wars with Israel. ... In 1952 when Egypt was not republic, a group of Egyptian army officers seized power. ... Another thing Egypt ...
Making Egypt's first empire. In doing so, he made the Egyptian double crown. It was made by putting the red crown of Lower Egypt on top of the white crown of upper Egypt. ... What followed put Egypt in rapid decline. ... And once again Egypt. ...
