Ancient Greek Research Paper

In this essay, the author

• Compares the ancient egyptian and ancient greek civilizations, and explains that they co-existed in different geographical areas.
• Explains that writing is one of the most significant developments of ancient civilisation. we could better understand ancient egypt and ancient greece by analysing their writing system.
• Explains that ancient egypt had four thousand years long history, from 3000 bc to the late first millennium ad.
• Explains that hieroglyphs formed at the beginning of the old kingdom about 3000bc.
• Explains that hieroglyphs were one of the earliest writing systems in the world, and the origin of them is essential to understand this language.
• Explains that some of the depicted on rock images are also found on pottery vessels of early predynastic egypt, made during the naqada ii period.
• Explains some of the depicted on naqada ii pottery are also found in rock images produced by prehistoric hunting communities living in the dessert.
• Explains that ancient egyptians believed thoth was god of science, religion, philosophy, and the invention of language and writing is an important part of god's creation of a series of activities.
• Explains that writing in the egyptian society was not only the writing of language but also the particular form of god given to the tools for the world.
• Explains that the priest used hieroglyphs to write down prayers and texts related to life after death and the gods.
• Explains that the book of the dead, a compilation of spells, and hieroglyphs were discovered on sarcophagi, tools and weapons, as well as jewels.
• Explains that writing meant state service and brought with it state income. scribes were considered indispensable to the pharaohs.
• Compares how ancient egyptians made ink by grinding coloured minerals into powder, then mixing the powder with liquid so that it was easier to use.
• Explains that the greek alphabet was developed from the phoenician writing system in 2000 bc.
• Explains that the greek used the phoenician alphabet and made a few changes. they changed the signs for which no consonantal equivalent was found and used it as an individual vowel sound
• Explains that the greek alphabet has a smaller number of signs, which makes writing system more accessible than pictographic systems.
• Analyzes herodotus' account about the producer of the greek alphabet. the phoenicians, including the gephyraians came with kadmos and settled this land, and they transmitted much lore to the hellenes.
• Explains herodotus studied that cadmus might live sixteen years earlier in 2000 bc. he estimated the writing engraved on tripods in the temple of apollo at thebes.
• Explains that the greek alphabet led to a series of improvement in greek society, especially the contribution of greek literature.
• Concludes that ancient egypt was an enormous kingdom; it makes their society divide by different classes like a pyramid. the centralised politic environment caused serious impact on their culture and writing.