March A&A Test Review

a person's children, grandchildren, and all the people who live after them who are related to them

• ancestor

• scholar

• descendant

• relatives

a person who knows a lot about a particular subject because they have studied it in detail

• nerd

• genius

• dictator

• scholar

to be a sign or symbol of something

• innovation

• promote

• represent

• signpost

to take on and have as one's own, especially ways of doing something or attitudes about a subject

• adopt

• hertiage

• descendent

• innovation

a new idea, product, or way of doing something

• techonology

• innovation

• know how

• oral tradition

What is the main idea of the "A is for Ox article"?

• Many alphabets exist today because of a Canaanite innovation to Egyptian hieroglyphs

• All languages from all over the world originally came from the Egyptian language.

• Without Egyptian hieroglyphs, the English language would not exist at all.

• Scholars of ancient Egypt discovered how to decipher hieroglyphs by studying the Canaanite language.

According to the article, what makes Egyptian hieroglyphs different from simple drawings?

• They could only be understood by people who lived in Egypt.

• They were mostly used for decoration and not for writing.

• They represent ideas, not just the objects they look like.

• They were easy to read and understand.

What would the English alphabet most likely look like today if the

Canaanite miners had never gone to work in Egypt?

• It likely wouldn’t have any letters that represent vowel sounds.

• There likely wouldn’t be any writing system at all for the English language.

• The English alphabet would most likely use Arabic letters instead of Latin letters

• It would likely use pictures that represent words instead of letters that represent

  sounds

the country, culture, and religion that a person and their family come from

• culture

• ancestory

• heritage

• politics

to enter a country, town, or are using military force in order to take control of it

• invade

• escape

• attack

• invitation