HUM 100 Module Five Short Answer
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HUM 100 Module Five Short Answer: Skills in the Humanities
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Perspective in the Humanities
Lauren F Caruso
Southern New Hampshire University
Department of Nursing and Healthcare Professions
Professor Wendell Smith
Module Five Short Answer: Skills in the Humanities
October 1, 2023
HUM 100 Module Five Short Answer: Skills in the Humanities
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The cultural work that I selected is the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Egyptian hieroglyphics
was a writing system that was used by ancient Egyptians to represent their language. Egyptian
hieroglyphics were once believed to be considered “holy writing” (Scoville, 2022). Because of
this, Egyptians used hieroglyphics to communicate and to keep record of important events.
Hieroglyphics date back to nearly 3200 BC, but the last hieroglyphic inscription was used some
3500 years later. Although symbols/pictures were used in hieroglyphics, they are not considered
picture writing. Due to the number of signs used for hieroglyphics, there were over a thousand
different hieroglyphics used at first (Scoville, 2022).
The hieroglyphic system created by the Egyptians had a major impact on their culture at
the time. They had the ability to record events which are now considered an important piece of
history. They were able to communicate with each other in writing form instead of verbally
communicating. Over the years, writing has changed drastically, but in order to understand things
from the past, we need to have a better understanding of how certain things came to be and in
this case, its how different languages, forms of communication and record keeping were formed.
HUM 100 Module Five Short Answer: Skills in the Humanities
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References:
Scoville, P. (2022, October 24).
Egyptian hieroglyphs
. World History Encyclopedia.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs/
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