SOTW 1 Part 1 CH 3

The __________ were among the earliest people to use writing.

• Phoenicians
• Sumerians
• Egyptians
• Babylonians

The Egyptians wrote with pictures called

• hieroglyphs
• pictographs
• alphabets
• symbols

The people who lived ________________ in found a better way to write using wet clay

• in Sumer

• in Mesopotamia
• in Greece
• in China

In Sumer they wrote with pictures called

• pictograms
• cuneiform
• kanji
• hieroglyphs

The Egyptians carved their pictures into

• wood
• stone tablets

• clay tablets

• papyrus

Where is Mesopotamia?

• below the Nile River

• in Egypt

• between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

• in Iran

What did the Sumerians do with their tablets after they carved them?

• They used the tablets as coasters for drinks.
• They buried the tablets in the ground.
• They painted the tablets with colorful designs.
• They dried or baked the tablets to harden them.

The Egyptians learned to make a special kind of paper called

• papyrus
• parchment
• vellum
• bamboo

What is something that is not good about this special paper, called papyrus?

• It deteriorates easily.
• It is widely available.
• It is easy to write on.
• It is very durable.

We do not know a great deal about what happened in Egypt after they started writing on ___________ because these writings have crumbled and disappeared.

• papyrus
• wooden boards
• stone carvings
• clay tablets