Worksheet for The World's Oldest Writing

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Maynard, Intro. to Archaeology Worksheet for The World’s Oldest Writing Your Name Daniel Meiron Date February 3 rd , 2022 All answers should be based on the article you have read. If I ask for a definition of a term DO NOT copy from an internet source, instead look for the definition in the article.  You may print out this worksheet and write in the answers by hand then take a photo to show me.  You can download the Word document and type in your answers, save it, then upload the edited document to me.  You can type your answers in a text box. (You do not have to retype the questions)  You can write the answers by hand and take a photograph and upload them. 1. Describe the first three artifacts presented (that is on the first two pages of this article what are the three photographs of? - A statue of a Sumerian scribe created around 2400 BC - A clay tablet which shows the first form of written language that was used for tasks like tallying grain or astronomy - A carved inscription that looks like it depicts a meeting of sorts 2. What did Media outlet around the world report in 2016? The media reported on recently deciphered Babylonian clay tablets that showed that their astronomers were more sophisticated than believed. 3. According to the article, when, by whom, where and why was Cuneiform writing developed?

Maynard, Intro. to Archaeology Cuneiform developed around 3200 BC by Sumerian scribes in the city-state of Uruk 4. Originally developed to write Sumerian, what other language (Assyrian and Babylonian Empire) used the script? Akkadian 5. What was found on three tablets dating to the old Babylonian period? Which one do they translate? Food recipes 6. What did Nanni write 4,000 years ago? A customer complaint to the merchant Ea-nasir 7. What was the best known and most influential of the Mesopotamian law codes? And what did it cover? King Hammurabi of Babylonia. It featured around 300 provisions covering topics from marriage to murder. 8. What do the Akkadian Medical terms Sakikku, ashipu , and miqtu mean? All diseases, doctor-scholars, the falling disease 9. What did George Smith decipher in 1872 that astonished the world? George deciphered a tablet that told a story eerily similar to the story of Noah in the Old Testament

Maynard, Intro. to Archaeology 10. When did the Akaddian language die out and the use of Cuneiform decline? Akkadian Language started to die out toward the end of the first Milennium BC and Cuneiform declined late first century AD

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