Kush: the kingdom south of Egypt that traded gold and worked iron
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Challenge Me
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Three ancient scripts
Script Can scholars read the sounds? Can they understand the language? Main clue Egyptian hieroglyphs yes yes the Rosetta Stone, with the same decree in Greek Meroitic (Kush, from the 200s BCE) yes, since Francis Griffith deciphered it in the early 1900s only a few words Meroitic spellings of Egyptian names Indus script no no inscriptions are very short Meroitic had two scripts: a cursive script based on Egyptian Demotic, used in about 90% of inscriptions, and a hieroglyphic script based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
How much of the Meroitic language can scholars understand, Zee asks?
- Only a few words
- All the words but no sounds
- All of it, like Egyptian
- None of its sounds
What clue helped Francis Griffith decipher Meroitic, Ari asks?
- A dictionary of Meroitic words left by Kush
- The Rosetta Stone's Greek text
- Very short inscriptions
- Meroitic spellings of Egyptian names
Three ancient scripts
Script Can scholars read the sounds? Can they understand the language? Main clue Egyptian hieroglyphs yes yes the Rosetta Stone, with the same decree in Greek Meroitic (Kush, from the 200s BCE) yes, since Francis Griffith deciphered it in the early 1900s only a few words Meroitic spellings of Egyptian names Indus script ? no inscriptions are very short The cell marked ? is blank. Meroitic had two scripts: a cursive script based on Egyptian Demotic, used in about 90% of inscriptions, and a hieroglyphic script based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Bo's chart has a blank: can scholars read the sounds of the Indus script?
- A few words
- Yes, from the Rosetta Stone
- Yes, since Griffith
- No
Three ancient scripts
Script Can scholars read the sounds? Can they understand the language? Main clue Egyptian hieroglyphs yes yes the Rosetta Stone, with the same decree in Greek Meroitic (Kush, from the 200s BCE) yes, since Francis Griffith deciphered it in the early 1900s only a few words Meroitic spellings of Egyptian names Indus script no no inscriptions are very short Meroitic had two scripts: a cursive script based on Egyptian Demotic, used in about 90% of inscriptions, and a hieroglyphic script based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Scholars can sound out Meroitic words but know few meanings. What is that like, Esme asks?
- Reading aloud a language you don't know
- Reading your own language easily and understanding it
- Reading a picture book
- Not knowing any of the letters
Why did Egyptian names help with Meroitic sounds, Jun asks?
- Known names showed what sounds the signs made
- Egyptian names were in Greek
- The names told what each word meant
- Names have no sounds
Which script do we understand best of the three, Kira asks?
- The Indus script
- Meroitic, since it was deciphered
- The three equally well
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
Meroitic cursive was based on Egyptian Demotic. What does that show about Kush and Egypt, Milo asks?
- The neighbors shared ideas about writing
- Kush and Egypt had no contact with each other
- Egypt copied its writing from Kush
- The two spoke the same language
Meroitic writing began in the 200s BCE. Which came first, Meroitic writing or Egyptian hieroglyphs, Noah asks?
- Neither: both began in CE
- Egyptian hieroglyphs, which Meroitic built on
- Both began in the same year
- Meroitic, which Egypt then copied
Ren's note says, "Most Meroitic inscriptions use the hieroglyphic script." Which fix is right?
- Change "Meroitic" to "Greek"
- Leave it: hieroglyphs came first in Egypt
- Change "hieroglyphic" to "cursive"
- Change "Most" to "No"
Tala's note says, "The Indus script is read the same way as Meroitic." Which fix is right?
- Leave it: both were deciphered
- Change "Meroitic" to "Greek"
- Change "Indus" to "Egyptian"
- Change it: the Indus script can't be read yet