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1 The next few slides are an example from UNIT I of the Presentation Assignment. You will follow instructions given, and provide 2-4 slides of information and visuals to help create a study tool for your classmates. Notice, the topics are on the first slide, and there is little text. Save your presentation as follows: Millhouse-2-Writing Systems Remember, you MUST meet with me a few days before you present during tutorials. You are not to just read from the slides. Teaching is learning…

2 Topic: Systems of record keeping arose independently in all early civilizations were subsequently diffused Teach one illustrative example of systems of record keeping from the following list: cuneiform, hieroglyphics, pictographs, alphabets, quipu

3 AP WORLD HISTORY Systems of Record Keeping: Cuneiform

4 Cuneiform Originating in the Middle East, cuneiform was used by scribes to record information about agriculture and taxes

5 Additional Uses of Cuneiform LawsLiterature & Myths Hammurabi’s Code Epic of Gilgamesh

6 Spread of Cuneiform Cuneiform was used by the Sumerians and the Akkadians. It was also used by the Hittites, Elamites, and Urartians.

7 Bibliography British Museum. “Mesopotamia.” Last accessed on August 24, 2011. http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/ home_set.html Guisepi, Robert. “The Hittites: A History of the Hittites.” International World History Project. Last modified in 2003. http://www.history-world.org/hittites.htm Stearns, Peter, et al. “From Human History to the Early Civilizations.” World Civilizations. 3 rd Edition. AP Edition. New York: Longman, 2003


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