Cuneiform tablets, history homework help

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In my history class, we are doing presentations about various subjects from ancient societies. My subject is Cuneiform. I have to also have a speech that goes a long with the PowerPoint that at least lasts around 4-5 minutes. The topics of the power point are:

Slide 1

Understanding cuneiform

Definitions and other important terms

Slide 2

Cuneiform tablets

Outline the uses of the tablets and in the next slide show some images of cuneiform writing

Slide 3

Changes in writing form

Give details on how writing changed from other form to cuneiform and then from cuneiform to the current way of writing.

Slide 4

Cuneiform and community

Show relationship between the form of writing and the aspects of community you can shows images of cuneiform showing aspects of community

Slide 5

Cuneiform and religion

Show how cuneiform was related to religion

Slide 6

What are ideographs- include an image

This is a term that was used them. It is just an example. You can use other terms that were used then.

Slide 7

Writing in relation to economics

The earliest form of writing started with economics

It was a record that was done between two parties to show record of 3000 acres of land

Slide 8

Cuneiform and family

Show images of family and give details on how cuneiform contributed to growth of families

Slide 9, 10, 11 and 12

Cuneiform and politics or artistic or conflicts or technology each attaching images

Slide 13

Conclusion

Slide 14

References


Please site references in last slide in MLA format

Also include pictures too with the slides


You can do this ether on PowerPoint or google docs and share it with me.

It would be a great if anyone could help out

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Cuneiform could be a system of writing initial developed by the traditional Sumerians of
geographical region c. 3500-3000 BCE. it's thought of the foremost vital among the various cultural
contributions of the Sumerians and also the greatest among those of the Sumerian town of Uruk
that advanced the writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE. The name comes from the Latin word wedge
shape for 'wedge' thanks to the wedge-shaped type of writing. In cuneiform, a rigorously cut
implement called a stylus is ironed into soft clay to supply wedge-like impressions that represent
word-signs (pictographs) and, later, phonograms or `word-concepts' (closer to a contemporary day
understanding of a `word'). All of the good Mesopotamian civilizations used cuneiform (the
Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Elamites, Hatti, Hittites, Assyrians, Hurrians and others) till it
absolutely was abandoned in favour of the orthography at some extra point a hundred BCE.

EARLY CUNEIFORM
The earliest cuneiform tablets, called proto-cuneiform, were pictorial, because the subjects they
addressed were additional concrete and visual (a king, a battle, a flood) however developed in
complexness becaus...


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