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Seven Traits of Civilization

Daniella Rodriguez

09/08/2020

Development of Writing

Egypt

Mesopotamia

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-Wrote on clay tablets

-At one point used pictures/characters to write

-Cuneiform

-Used a reed stylus

- Drew pictures on the cay but then decided to make wedge-shaped marks on the clay

- Used pictographs but then switched to phonetics

-Hammurabi's Code

-Hieroglyphics

- Sacred characters used as picture signs that depicted objects and had a sacred value

-Wrote on papyrus, stone

-Never had an alphabet, simplified into two texts

-Rosetta Stone

Development of Writing

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Art and Intellectual Activity

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Mesopotamia

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Art and Intellectual Activity

- Math: number system based on 60 (ex.geometry)

-Astronomy

-Irrigation

-Statues, temples (ziggurats)

-Formulaic art

- Strict cannon of proportion: Form & presentation

- Pyramids

-Elaborate burials and burial grounds

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Social power based on economic power

Egypt

Mesopotamia

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Social power based on economic power

-King, agent to the gods

-Dependent commoners

-Free Commoners

-Slaves

-Elites: wealthy and powerful individuals

-Kings were known as "divine"

-Pharaoh (god, ruler)

- Priests and Nobles ( 1st class)

-Merchants/traders (2nd class)

-Mathematicians, stone cutters

-Serfs -> common people

-Slaves

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