Egyptian Writing & Rosetta Stone

Record keeping of _________________ rituals prompted writing.

• religious

• gaming

• marriage

• eating

Writings were carved into _________ or __________.

• paper or sand

• wood or stone

• caves or holes

• plants or dirt

_________________- picture of object

• Ideograms

• Vowels

• Pictograms

• Sounds

Symbols evolved into _________________.

• pyramids

• feluccas

• pharaohs

• hieroglyphics

Later, symbols painted in ink on _______________.

• paper

• pencil

• papyrus

• pillows

The Rosetta Stone is a slab of _________________ rock carved in three languages.

• red

• black

• blue

• purple

The three languages on the Rosetta Stone are _______, ________, and ________.

• Hieroglyphics, Demotic (shorthand hieroglyphics), and Greek

• Hieroglyphics, Demotic (shorthand hieroglyphics), and Chinese

• Hieroglyphics, Demotic (shorthand hieroglyphics), and Spanish

• Hieroglyphics, Demotic (shorthand hieroglyphics), and German

The Rosetta Stone was found in ________ by French soldiers in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army.

• 1999

• 1899

• 1799

• 1699

In 1822 French scholar Jean Francois Champollion cracked the code of hieroglyphics because he could read _________.

• German

• Chinese

• Spanish

• Greek

The Rosetta Stone enabled scholars to decipher ___________ scrolls of hieroglyphics.

• wood

• paper

• stone

• metal