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AGE 1. The Time of Hunters and Farmers

1.6 Inventing Writing

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Which language can NOT be found on the Rosetta Stone?

1. Hyroglyphic
2. Latin
3. Greek
4. Demotic

How many years (rounded of) are there between the time when the Rosetta Stone was made, and when it was discovered?

1. 200 years
2. 1600 years
3. 1800 years
4. 2000 years

Which of the following is something that Europeans who visited Egypt before the Rosetta Stone was decyphered could never know?

1. what mummies looked like
2. who built the pyramids
3. when Egyptians started farming
4. what Egyptian gods looked like

Which of these statements is correct?

I. the Sumerians used hieroglyphs to record spells and stories.
II. The story of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest storeis that was ever recorded.

1. only I is correct
2. only II is correct
3. both are correct
4. both are wrong

Papyrus was the only material on which the Egyptians wrote something

1. True
2. False

being a scribe was a specialised profession

1. True
2. False

Prehistory is the time of which we have
no written records

1. true
2. false

the Fertile Crescent was the only place in the world where people invented a writing system

1. true
2. false

Which answer is WRONG?

Without the written evidence of the Sumerians we would never know

1. their stories
2. their architecture
3. their names
4. their thoughts

A source is primary when it was made in the time that we are studying

1. true
2. false

A source is primary or secondary.
But it is ALSO written or non-written.
Of each of the following sources choose the correct type.

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source A

Egyptian statue, made in 1150 BC

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source B

A reconstruction drawing of a family cooking in the Neolithic period

© Historic England (drawing by Peter Urmston)

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source C

prehistoric Cave painting in Lascaux, France. Made around 15,000 BC

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source D

New York Times, newspaper from Sept 12th, 2001

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source E

De Bello Gallico = The Gallic War

English translation, 192 pages

author: Gaius Julius Caesar

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written

source F

Julius Caesar (Command) Paperback – June 22, 2010

by Nic Fields (Author)

1. primary + written
2. primary + non-written
3. secondary + written
4. secondary + non-written