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This is a short 5 minute overview video of The Ancient Egyptians. It explains in more depth of information of hieroglyphics, and what happens in the ancient Egyptian civilizations back then.
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What purpose did hieroglyphics serve?It was the Egyptians writing system, and the first to ever written text. It was meant to be a language. With a mixture of pictures, symbols, pictures and ideograms. It also was meant for the Egyptians to communicate, and write on tombs. They would have to communicate to build tombs, and other things, so they really had to know what the person in charge was saying.
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What impact did it have on this civilization?It had a great impact, they are now known for that. It left clues, they could communicate, write stories in a variety of ways on the tombs, walls etc. Hieroglyphic were part of the reason that they were so advanced for their time. The only people that truly understood the hieroglyphics were the scribes because it was one of their own. It also helped the transfer of good between them and other civilizations, to pass cultural messages, and information to the next.
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What impact does it continue to have on the modern world?If we didn't have hieroglyphics then that would have stopped over half of the communication back then, and probably even till now. By them keeping records it allowed them to pass traditions and memorable history to next generations. This way they were able to kept track of what they learned, and this helped us today figure out what happened back then.
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