Cuneiform script

The first script, or true writing, that we know was developed among the Sumerians in Mesopotamia only around the year 3500 BC, less than 6,000 years ago. The alphabet, which was invented only once, so that every alphabet in the world derives directly or indirectly…

It is not a language; it is better to refer to it as a writing system or rather, writing systems. The term Cuneiform is somewhat cryptic; it tricks you into thinking it’s a language or a singular writing system. When in reality, it is several kinds of writing systems. These systems include; logo syllabic, syllabic, and alphabetic scripts. It used between 600 and 1000 characters to write words or syllables. That is so much more than our current 26 letter alphabet that we…

They had a system of writing that was one step better than the Cuneiform of the Sumerian people. Therefore more people could understand and the language was more widely used. When referred to Document 4, “These records were kept in hieroglyphics, a system of writing that was based on pictures. Unlike Sumerian Cuneiform writing, hieroglyphics represented ideas or objects but could also stand for sounds.”(Document 4). Sumerian Cuneiform writing could not stand for sounds, so there was a completely…

Brady jenniges Mesopotamia's History hour 5 Mesopotamia's Climate/ Temperature The Mesopotamia’s Climate was usually hot and dry, the temperature then was usually seventy to eighty five degrees fahrenheit. That would mean that it would be a little bit dusty and they could get dehydrated if they didn’t get enough water and if they got be hydrated back then it would be bad because it takes six days to get back…

In the article “Cuneiform and the History of Civilization” Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, a world renowned Assyriologist argues that the survival span, influence, and legacy of Mesopotamia, a historic civilization is unmatched. After extensive research, Speiser came to the conclusion that Mesopotamian Laws were the most influential of the Cuneiform laws. It’s legal traditions set the precedent for other civilizations and heavily impacted later cultures. Our world as we know it today is culturally…

pictographs that represented their literal depiction, Sui generis was a writing script developed in Byblos that used pictographs that didn’t have any pictorial meaning whatsoever. Written in 2000 BCE this script has over a hundred characters and is one of the first languages that approached the idea of an alphabet. In 1500 BCE Semitic workers in turquoise mines created their own version of hieroglyphics called Sinaitic script. Their glyphs used hieroglyphs as symbols to depict sounds instead of…

Directions for summarization exercise: Important information in this passage is underlined. Read the passage once as a whole section. Then, with a partner, take turns reading the underlined sentences out loud. Next, talk about how you could summarize these ideas in your own words. Working with your partner, create a summary with no more than three sentences that capture the most important ideas. the clay tablets have writings on them Ancient Mesopotamia: The Invention of Writing…

and science are pretty much in lockstep with each other. That area is in the transmitting of the printed Word of God. For millennia mankind has used any material available to write on. This has ranged from common, ordinary stone to hand sized cuneiform tablets made from clay, to shards of pottery called ostraca, to plates of metal such as gold, silver and bronze, to sheets of paper like material made from plant fibers, to specially prepared animal hides and more. In each and every case, the…

This economy development generated the need for writing systems that was more sophisticated than the token system. The evolved cuneiform gave the opportunity of conceptual development from pictographs, a visual writing system to an auditory writing system or phonetic writing. The pictographs which originally represent pictures of object changes to represent the different syllables…

In this essay I will be comparing the political and social structures of the Mesopotamian and the Indus river valley civilizations. To begin I will give you a little back ground about the Mesopotamian civilization and the Indus river valley civilizations. The Mesopotamian civilization began at about 3500 B.C. The Mesopotamian civilization was in between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The Mesopotamian civilization created the first cities known as city-states. The Mesopotamian civilization also…