Writing & Literature
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waltzworldhistory on March 25, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cuneiform | Sumerian writing made by pressing a wedge-shaped tool into clay tablets. |
| Hieroglyphics | The ancient Egyptian writing system that used picture symbols. |
| Sanskrit | Written language developed by the Aryans in ancient India. |
| Phoenician Alphabet | Alphabet developed by the Phoenicians that became the model for later Western alphabets.(Greek & Latin) |
| Hebrew | Language of the Old Testament and Jews. |
| Latin | The language of ancient Rome. |
| Literature | All the poems, stories and writings of a period of time or of a country. One of the components of culture. |
| Epic | A long poem that tells a story. |
| Epic of Gilgamesh | An epic poem from Mesopotamia, and among the earliest known works of literary writing. Its about a king who tries to find immortality after his friend dies. |
| The Iliad | A long Greek epic poem, by Homer, about the events near the end of the Trojan War. |
| The Odyssey | Ancient Greek epic written by Homer, about Odysseus' 10 year struggle to get home from the Trojan War. |
| The Mahabharata | Epic poems of India's struggle for power between two branches of the same family, contains teaches of Hinduism. |
| The Ramayana | The Hindu story of Rama, a god-king that rescued his wife Sita from her abductor Sri Lanka. Written in ancient India. |
| Homer | Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey. |
| Trojan War | A great war fought between Greece and Troy and the subject of the Iliad. |
| Pictographs | Pictures that stand for words or ideas; picture writing. |
| Characters | Written symbols. |
| Calligraphy | The art of beautiful handwriting. |
| Rosetta Stone | A huge stone inscribed with hieroglyphics, Greek, and a later form of Egyptian that allowed historians to understand Egyptian writing. |
| Papyrus | Ancient paper made in Egypt from the stems of papyrus plants. |
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