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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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Ancient World: Writing before Alphabets
This activity is designed to help students recall terms and concepts related to the development of writing before alphabets.
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Hieroglyphics,  | "sacred writing" or "sacred carving", |
| Pictograms | representational images,  |
| Ideograms | representation of abstract concepts |
| Cuneiform | wedge carvings on clay tablets,  |
| Rock of Behistun | key to deciphering cuneiform,  |
| Phonograms | symbols for sounds |
| Rosetta Stone | key to deciphering hireoglyphics,  |
| Hieratic | hieroglyphics used for sacred writings |
| Demotic | hieroglyphics used for non-sacred writings |
| Scorpion King find | hieroglyphics that predate cunieform |
| Boustrophedon | a bi-directional text,  |
| Quipu | "talking strings" or "talking knots" used by Incans,  |
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