Ancient Egyptian Writing
3,000BC just about the same time as the
Mesopotamians!
1. What allowed Egyptians to begin trading among themselves and with others?
a. The introduction of the shadoof
b. Farming the Nile Delta
c. Minerals from the red land
d. The production of surplus food
2. How did rivers help trade in ancient civilizations?
a. they flooded fields every year
b. they provided a lot of fish
c. they formed natural barriers between countries
d. boats carrying goods could travel up and down them
3. Which development was the most influential in helping people learn about life in ancient
Egypt?
A. writing
B. the plow
C. irrigation
D. the wheel
• HRU (How are you?)
• WYD 2DAY (What you doing
today?)
• BRB (Be right back.)
• G2G (Got to go)
• TTYL (talk to you later)
•Where might you see the types of messages
that appear on the board
•What makes this type of communication
different from the normal written word?
Can you decode?
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OMG
LOL
BFFL
IDK
JP
MYOB
JK
JW
2 minute power conference
Discuss:
• Why do people use this form of
communication rather than writing complete
words and sentences?
• What are the advantages of using this type of
communication?
Let’s look…
• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/hie
roglyph/hieroglyph4.html
Questions:
• What are the pictures in picture writing
called?
• Where would these forms of communication
typically be found?
• What similarities are there between the use of
hieroglyphs and the way we communicate
today when we use text messaging on our cell
phones or in e- mail?
Hieroglyphics
• Writing in Ancient Egypt
• Written on temples and tomb
walls and on papyrus scrolls
• About 700 symbols - over
time it grew to 6,000
symbols!
• Papyrus:
• They cut the stems and dried them into sheets
that could be rolled
• They were light and easy to carry
• They created some of the first books!
English Alphabet V. Hieroglyphics V.
Cuneiform (Mesopotamia)
English Alphabet
Hieroglyphics
Letters are not used as
pictures and can’t
represent objects
Cuneiform
Lettered can be used to
represent pictures. (Only
when they used
pictographs)
Some pictures stood for
ideas, a circle meant Re (a
god)
Letters represent sounds,
sounds and grouped into
syllables and syllables are
grouped into words. Words
represent objects and
ideas.
Calisthenics
• Which geographic feature was the main reason for
the location of the ancient Egyptian civilization?
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A. coastal plain
B. a mountain
C. a desert oasis
D. a river
• Which occupation involves the study of artifacts from
an ancient civilization?
– A genealogist
– B anthropologist
– C archaeologist
On your Papyrus
• ONLY IN RED
OR BLACK
INK!!!!!!!
• (Or Both)
Write your FULL name
(that includes your first
and last)
Using EACH option on the
website we looked at
yesterday write a
paragraph as to WHY
hieroglyphics were
important