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Indicator: 6.1.CO Compare the development of social systems among the early river valley civilizations. Learning Goal I can compare the development of writing in ancient Egypt, India, China and Mesopotamia.

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I'm learning goals today will be how to how to compare the development of writing in ancient Egypt India China and Mesopotamia again we're still working under the on the development of social systems among the early river valley civilizations are essential question is steel and we're still working on the same what was necessary for the development of cradles of civilization as people moved from a nomadic existence to a settled life criteria for Mastery by the end of the lesson you should be able to State the language that was developed by the Sumerians Egyptians Indus and Huang He Valley Civilization did language develop among the early civilizations according to the discoveries made by historical historians and archaeologists how was written language used initially Empires the Rosetta Stone an important discovery take a minute to read these words try to determine what the following words mean and determine in which language they're written these words mean I love you the top one is in Spanish then French breach our first lesson is on the Egyptian writing of hieroglyphics writing began in Egypt around 3,000 BC there were different types of lighting for different occasions hieroglyphics were ideograms used for formal writing identity was a simplified version of Egyptian writing carbon name Egyptians called the writing on Stone a road or a form of paper made from weed that grew along the Nile River now they have formal writing an informal writing and in a way you have formal writing and informal writing the way you write your papers for school can be considered formal writing the way you like to your friends such as a text message or SnapChat or on Facebook can be seen as informal writing it's not the same well the Egyptians hair formal writing and informal writing is well the Rosetta Stone for a long time archaeologists were unable to translate hieroglyphics the discovery of the Rosetta Stone also the translation of hieroglyphics it contain the same passage in three different languages so before I started preparing for this lesson the Rosetta Stone was like a program that you get when you want to learn a new language and in a way this is what this is because it did teach them how to translate the hieroglyphics did teach them basically a new language because they could not translate to hieroglyphics before the Rosetta Stone this is Egyptian are glyphics take the time to look at this the hieroglyphics what characters alphabet do you not see there are several characters of our alphabet you there's no e there's no l there's no all no Novi No Ex why or excuse me there is a y nosey so we cannot use hieroglyphics to write some of the words that we have in our language today because they major characters that are missing Mesopotamian writing the Sumerians developed cuneiform as a form of writing that different from pictograph in that symbol represented symbols of Hearts of Worlds was written on clay tablets with a stylus scribes were hired to keep track of items people traded pixel art on grid in using cuneiform this is Acuna form alphabet we could probably use cuneiform for our to write for us because they use the same characters alphabetical characters are also in there alphabetical list the Chinese writing Oracle bones is the earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered and it's from The Late Show Ain Dynasty circular 12:50 to 10:50 BC bones were pieces of rocks for Turtle phone people with submit questions to the gods regarding feature weather crop planning the fortunes of members of the Royal Family military Endeavors and other similar topics these questions were carved on to the Bone or shell in Oracle bone script using a sharp 2 intense Heat then applied until the bone or she'll crack they would then interpret the pattern of the cracks and write their meanings on the peace as well so now you take a shell and you put your question that you want ask the god and you apply heat until it cracked and then you decipher or interpret the pattern of the cracks as to what it meant no I don't understand how they could come up with the meaning because depending on who interpreted the pattern it can mean different things to different people no two people see things the same way but however that's how they started their original script this is the earliest Chinese language I don't know Chinese but to me it looks like the same characters that I see on the met you when I go order my Chinese food I'm sure if I was Chinese I could probably see the difference that time has made in the characters but to me it looks very much the same although I'm sure there are differences the last one is India India's writing system language developed in India in the first two cities of harappa and mohenjo Scholars have not been able to decode the Moroccan language they don't know what happened in her rocker because no one even to this day has been able to the Harappan language is still on the coded as of now the Aryan civilization developed Sanskrit the most important language of ancient India now as in with our language we have different dialects people in the South say things a certain way people in the North May pronounce some different words differently people in the midwest made now certain words even different from the south or the North are the same words it's just that we use different pronunciations of different words or I dial for India is a large country and they have several different so to speak of Sanskrit the overall Sanskrit that were talking about what's the first and it was the most important in Ancient India first day of script was written I mean only spoken but eventually they started writing it now it's no longer spoken is still written but it's no longer spoken can't take a minute to look at the picture of the sand script characters when I look at this script character what I saw was they use pretty much look like the same characters one looks like a 3 this looks like the the medical symbol symbol for pi this looks like it either a s or 5 it looks like an upside down V to me they look this looks like a t so to me they say like they use a lot of the same just added a different Mark like a squirrel here or out there I'll check for understanding class notebook where's the check for understanding you need to answer these questions how to clean a form different from picture graph why was it impossible archaeologist to translate hieroglyphics and what was one of the first use uses of the written language and how are the languages similar and how are they different again this is in your class notebook in the Content Library under check for understanding reason we went to the close notes was all of these questions came directly from your clothes notes so if you've been following along and filling in the blanks you should be able to answer these it's in your checks understanding with no problem looking for similarities and differences here is a web and it shows all four of the languages that we just looked at hieroglyphics Egyptian four years of language for not be trans the Rosetta Stone came along they wrote you some pictures on Stone and Tapas in cuneiform if which was Mesopotamia and use symbols on Beltline ethics aucoin and describes kept track of goods that were traded was Sanskrit India developed in Rafa was never decoding so remember the language for her rocker was never Dakota even today it's not Dakota Sanskrit was first spoken in and in China they use the Oracle bones to communicate with the Gods similarities is that all four of the early river valley civilization developed some form of writing all four of them another similarity is all four of them used characters some type of characters what kind of picture there were no words just pictures and characters symbols they all use different types of symbols there may be other similarities that you can recall

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