HISTORY 230 Midterm: History 230 Vocabulary List
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Set of symbols and letters in a fixed order. A stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or a sound. An abridged ancient egyptian hieroglyphic writing used by priests. Frenchman known for deciphering the rosetta stone in. Wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems in the mesopotamia and persia. Symbols that represented characters in the sumerian writing system. Southern part of mesopotamia that became ancient babylon. Sumerians developed this after the development of the logographic system. Highly ambiguous but rather easy to learn; similar to the alphabet except through syllables. Final step in the writing system where they broke down the syllables into actual letters. Egyptian cursive script; written from right to left; much more common than hieroglyphic script. Greek for common or popular use , although hieratic was more common; encountered in 660 bce. Text written in three scripts: hieroglyphic, demotic, and. Determined hieroglyphic script was a phonetic script not just a writing system.
