1. Chapter 6,
Lesson 2
Using Picture Writing

9. Objective
To understand the evolution of language and
its written form.

10. Vocabulary
pictograph- symbols that represent words or
ideas.

12. Pictographs
Pictures soon evolved into not just words but
sounds.
Sumerian’s word for fish was ha

13. ha
fish

14. Example
= belief

16. Evolution
Pictograms became cuneiforms.

18. Scribes
“Those who knew”

19. Scribes
Very few people could read or write.
Kings hired scribes,
Professional writers

20. Phoenicians
Turned to a simpler way to keep records.
Cuneiform was too complicated!
Developed an alphabet with 22 symbols.
Each stood for a sound
The Phoenicians invented the alphabet!

21. What does this say?
GHOTI