Writing and Number Systems Quiz

What were writing and number systems both invented and developed in?

• Modern times

• Early civilizations

• The Stone Age

• The future

Where was writing first begun?

• Shang

• Indus Valley

• Sumer

• Egypt

Around what year did writing begin in Sumer?

• 1000 BC

• 3200 BC

• 500 BC

• 2000 AD

What did the first writing in Sumer use to represent objects or ideas?

• Letters

• Numbers

• Pictographs

• Symbols

What did Sumerian pictographs eventually become known as?

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Alphabet

• Emojis

What did scribes use to press wedge shapes into tablets of wet clay?

• A pen

• A stylus

• A brush

• Their fingers

What materials were stylus made of?

• reed, wood or bone

• metal

• stones

• plasic

From what writing did the Indus Valley civilization use at least 400 pictographs?

• From Sumer writing

• From their own invention

• From China

• From Egypt

In Shang Dynasty writing, what did each symbol represent?

• A letter

• A number

• A word

• A sentence

Besides business and government, what other purposes did early writing serve in Sumer?

• Writing stories

• Writing love letters

• Writing shopping lists

• Writing text messages