WWU Design 211 Exam 1 questions with
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pictograph - correct answer ✔✔a picture that represents an important event or idea
phonogram - correct answer ✔✔written symbol for a sound
Ideograms - correct answer ✔✔A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a
thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Cuneiform - correct answer ✔✔A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge
shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What were social innovations that writing allowed - correct answer ✔✔record keeping, passing
down traditions
Hammurabi code - correct answer ✔✔Earliest example of written law
A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the
establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes
and punishments to help judges impose penalties.
Cylinder seals - correct answer ✔✔used for personal identification/ status symbol
personal branding
Small cylinders decorated with distinctive images. These were rolled on damp clay to leave a
rectangular impression to "seal" a deal in business/ equivalent to a signature today
Hieroglyphic - correct answer ✔✔sacred writing in greek
, -oldest/more visual
hieratic - correct answer ✔✔religious writing / somewhat images
demotic - correct answer ✔✔abstract
what does the word hieroglyph mean? - correct answer ✔✔sacred writing
Rosetta Stone - correct answer ✔✔two languages/ 3 different scripts
discovered by napoleon's troops in 1799
Cartouche - correct answer ✔✔bullet for important names
an oval or oblong enclosing a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs, typically representing the name
and title of a monarch.
Egyptian writing - correct answer ✔✔substrates:papyrus, wrote with reeds
scribe pallete: identified someone who could read/write
used black, and red ink for important names
Writing needed for after life - correct answer ✔✔book of the dead
needed text for afterlife journey/instructions
Phaistos Disk - correct answer ✔✔link between ancient pictographs and alphabet
a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to
the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age
100% complete solutions
pictograph - correct answer ✔✔a picture that represents an important event or idea
phonogram - correct answer ✔✔written symbol for a sound
Ideograms - correct answer ✔✔A character or figure in a writing system in which the idea of a
thing is represented rather than it's name (example: Chinese)
Cuneiform - correct answer ✔✔A form of writing developed by the Sumerians using a wedge
shaped stylus and clay tablets.
What were social innovations that writing allowed - correct answer ✔✔record keeping, passing
down traditions
Hammurabi code - correct answer ✔✔Earliest example of written law
A legal code developed by King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia. The code was influential in the
establishment of Hebrew and Islamic law and in the U.S. judiciary system. It specified crimes
and punishments to help judges impose penalties.
Cylinder seals - correct answer ✔✔used for personal identification/ status symbol
personal branding
Small cylinders decorated with distinctive images. These were rolled on damp clay to leave a
rectangular impression to "seal" a deal in business/ equivalent to a signature today
Hieroglyphic - correct answer ✔✔sacred writing in greek
, -oldest/more visual
hieratic - correct answer ✔✔religious writing / somewhat images
demotic - correct answer ✔✔abstract
what does the word hieroglyph mean? - correct answer ✔✔sacred writing
Rosetta Stone - correct answer ✔✔two languages/ 3 different scripts
discovered by napoleon's troops in 1799
Cartouche - correct answer ✔✔bullet for important names
an oval or oblong enclosing a group of Egyptian hieroglyphs, typically representing the name
and title of a monarch.
Egyptian writing - correct answer ✔✔substrates:papyrus, wrote with reeds
scribe pallete: identified someone who could read/write
used black, and red ink for important names
Writing needed for after life - correct answer ✔✔book of the dead
needed text for afterlife journey/instructions
Phaistos Disk - correct answer ✔✔link between ancient pictographs and alphabet
a disk of fired clay from the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the island of Crete, possibly dating to
the middle or late Minoan Bronze Age
