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What is a picture-like symbol?
Hieroglyphs:
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What is: (Our opinion) The animal may have made that sound. Also, it is possible that the word it represented was related to an obvious feature (s).
Possible Reasons Why the Egyptians would use animals for writing:
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What is stone and clay?
The Egyptians used this BEFORE Papyrus:
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What is paper? This Ancient type of paper evolved into the paper we know today. The difference - today it is made from trees.
What the reeds created for the Egyptians:
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What is: The Egyptians' culture and lifestyle?
What do we learn by seeing hieroglyphics?
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What are ideas or things? Egyptians could write down events, battles, or the different times of pharaohs.
What Pictures Stand For:
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What is the kingdom's wealth? They also kept track of simple goods, such as grain, water, and animals.
What Hieroglyphs Keep Track Of:
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What is a plant, more specifically a reed?
Papyrus is made from these:
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What are the inner stalks of the reeds?
What were cut into narrow strips?
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What is: Small ideas and words?
What were hieroglyphs originally meant to represent?
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An astounding amount of modern knowledge. Today many simple things, such as writing were based on many things the Egyptians knew.
What the Egyptians possessed:
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What are more complicated ideas? Events that occurred repeatedly such as war, floods, heat, and pyramids needed their own symbols, making sentences only easier to understand because they would consist of less "words" and only pictures.
It became necessary to draw more pictures because of this:
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Who are the Sumerians?
This people also used rocks and clay with the Egyptians, before Papyrus was created:
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What is side by side?
The strips were placed in this format:
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What is: To "go"?
What should a picture of two legs mean?
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What is the empire's culture and records? We see their early ways of life through hieroglyphs.
What We Learn By Appreciating Hieroglyphs:
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What is (N)armer's hat? Narmer starts with a n!
What is a possible relation to this "n" sound?
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What is: They were too heavy? (or another answer).
Why the Egyptians might drop rocks as a source of paper:
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What is: They were laid out in the sun?
How did the Papyrus dry?
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What is: They were rolled up
How was the Papyrus stored for future use?
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What are sounds? Some symbols stood for more than one letter combined, a.k.a. sounds.
Some pictures stand for letters, but others stand for:
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What are the floods? Papyrus probably rushed down the streams and rivers, and eventually, from the delta, the Egyptians would be stocked up on a year's worth of it.
Papyrus was probably found after this:
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What is the Nile Delta?
Where these reeds for Papyrus were found:
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What is: The reed sap?
What glued the Papyrus strips?
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Who is: Thoth
This god brought writing to the land:
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