After Class, Chapter 1

1. Summarize in 1-2 paragraphs the class discuss of the day.

In class today we talked about chapter one. Each person went through what they thought would be the most interesting. We reviewed the ancient world's images, going over the difference between pictographs, petroglyphs and ideographs. Petroglyphs are any image carved into clay or stone. We saw the caves of Lascaux and told the site to visit. They are awesome and flash based. We went over the Hammurabi code basics and how it was pillars of these codes in the town square and you had to pay a scribe to read it to you if you couldn't read it. We saw visually how the original pictographs and ideographs became a shorthanded beginning of script. We also learned the difference between the hieroglyphs and the demotic hieroglyphs. The original hieroglyphs were more for priests to read while the demotic version was more able to be read by the populace. We saw an image of the Rosetta Stone on display and saw it was huge!

I met Heather while discussing what we found to be important. She seems nice, she found it interesting that writing was used for keeping stats for people such as inventories on livestock or crops.

2. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today?

The most meaningful thing for me today was looking at the french caves of Lascaux. They were really look to look at and see how big the pictographs were. When I see the images on a slideshow or something, they don't seem very big but as I toured the site a little I got to see just how large the pictures really are in comparison to the caves.