Culture (Historical Content) Quest

Which civilization invented the first writing system of mankind?

• Egyptians

• Sumerians

• Greeks

• Babylonians

• Romans

What was the name of mankind's first writing system?

• hieroglyphs

• demotic

• Greek alphabet

• Phoenician alphabet

• cuneiform

Who first translated the ancient Egyptian form of writing?

• Howard Carter

• Jean Francois Champollion

• Henry C. Rawlinson

• Dr. Bob Brier

What was the ancient form of Egyptian writing found on monuments, pyramid texts, and other sacred writings?

• hieroglyphs

• cuneiform

• pictographs

• demotic

What artifact was key to Champollion deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs in AD 1822?

• The Great Pyramid

• Temple at Karnak

• The Rosetta Stone

• Sarcophagus of Ramses the Great

• Funerary Mummification Papyrus

What did the Egyptians use for day to day writing and documents?

• carved into stone

• pressed into clay tablets

• wrote with a stylus on papyrus

• used a quill to write on sheets of vellum

What was the phonetic (sound-based) writing system used by the Greeks?

• cuneiform

• alphabet

• pictographs

• hieroglyphs

• cursive

Which civilization did the Greeks model their alphabet after?

• Romans

• Sumerians

• Egyptians

• Phoenicians

• Mayans

What was the spoken language of Rome?

• Roman

• Greek

• Latin

• Demotic

Latin is the foundation of what romance languages today?

• Spanish

• French

• English

• Italian