The ancient world notes
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Before civilisation images and
sculptures were created the sculptures were mainly of humans and the paintings
were usually animals.
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Is this when people were
beginning to document every day life?
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Paintings were used as a form
of film or entertainment they used the flicker of a fire to make the images
look like they were moving.
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No one knows the truth about
why the paintings are there.
What was the first civilisation and was
it actually civilised?
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First civilisation emerged around
3500bce
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Egypt first civilised community.
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Tartaria tablet 5500 bce used
as a form of language? Forst development of pictures with meaning.
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Samarian writing- symbol
writing.
Ancient Egypt
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The size of the people in their
illustrations showed importance the bigger the more important.
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The images were very stylised showing all of the most important parts of the body in one image (face profile
body front on.)
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Tomb paintings showed wealth.
The paintings documented everyday life showing servants and families.
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The paintings made your ‘after
life’ better they thought it would make your afterlife be the same as normal
life.
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Important documentation of
Egyptian life.
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The idea of size showing
importance is still used.
The book of the dead and hieroglyphs
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The book of the dead c1350 bce
each tomb had one that showed the
journey from life through the underworld to your afterlife.
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The book contained spells,
codes, chants and tests to help you get to afterlife.
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The weighing of the heart-
Heavy heart = bad things, you wont go to a good afterlife.
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Light heart = you will have a
good afterlife.
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Hieroglyphs- processed pictoral
symbols represent values and sounds.
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Demotic = hieroglyphs that were
made more simple for the people.
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Rosetta stone big block of
carved text in 3 different languages ancient Greek, hieroglyphs and demotic
hieroglyphs. It took many years to complete.
Ancient China
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They invented ink, silk and
tea.
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They created their own alphabet
different from anywhere else in the world.
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1100Bc they created porcelain
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c.105 Ad they created paper
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9th century they
created printing and paper money.
