{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50367438","dateCreated":"1328903220","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"sewen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sewen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1256135246\/sewen-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ewenclass.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/50367438"},"dateDigested":1531975627,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Enlightenment","description":"Enlightenment Life
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\nYour friend has recently moved to the 13 colonies from Europe. As the Enlightenment and enlightenment ideals begin to spread through Europe, you decide you must write him\/her a letter describing this new change that seems to be sweeping the nation! The European Enlightenment is going to directly influence the Revolution in America. (which you do not know yet)
\nYour task for today, is to write a letter to your friend in Colonial America, detailing these new ideas that the philosophes are spreading and convince him or her of how life in Colonial America could be better. You need to include the following information:
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\nDescribe what life was like before the Enlightenment (what was the government like, how is the average person treated?)
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\nWho are some examples of Absolute rulers and how are they ruling?
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\nDescribe the views of at least THREE different philosophes during this time\u2026 what were their views about people? What were their views on government? How did they impact the Enlightenment?
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\nUse your book and your notes\u2026be creative!!!","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"50368510","body":"Dear Susan,
\nThe new I ideas that these philosophers are spreading and absolutely crazy! There are so many things to learn about, and new books to read. For instance, Denis Diderot, one of my close friends, made a book called, \u201cThe Encyclopedia\u201d. And another one of my closest friend Baron he had great ideas of checks and balences.","dateCreated":"1328904288","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"shumphreys1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/shumphreys1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50368652","body":"Dear Torrey Johnson,
\nLife over here is ok. Thomas Hobbes supports absolute monarchy like whats going on over here in europe with louis the 14. With him being so greedy and all being pampered all the time.Whatever he wants he gets, and we can rebell because hes over a days way away. But, some new guys are comming along like John Locke who supporets monarchy. Mary Wollstonecraft supports women rights and education which is a change for the best. They all suport liberty,property and pursuit of happiness which is cool. The average person isnt treated that good right now its all about the king, but soon its all going to be diffrent.
\nWrite back please
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\nFrom: Jack Donnellan","dateCreated":"1328904502","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"jdonnellan1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jdonnellan1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50368830","body":"Dear Alyssa,
\n I\u2019ve heard you moved to one of the 13 colonies! Good thing for us during this time period the Enlightment has begun. You\u2019re probably wondering what Enlightment is, it is known for the \u201cage of reasons\u201d. We\u2019re both under an absolute monarchy right about now but thanks to this Enlightment it a response to absolutism. I think right now we would both enjoy being part of a democracy way much more than absolute monarchy for many reasons, but I\u2019m only going to tell you two reasons. Since we\u2019re both not like Thomas Hobbes, who he believes that in every human we should give up our individual liberties rights in return for social order. But on the other side John Locke you\u2019ve probably heard about him, he once told us that every individual should have life, liberty, & property. His idea for us if we didn\u2019t get this kind of rights, then that we should overthrow this government. Before Enlightment king Louis the 14th moved the nobility to the palace of Versailles so that they would be farther from us. Hopefully we will sooner or later be part of a democracy! Hope to see you soon !","dateCreated":"1328904764","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"esmith1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/esmith1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50368900","body":"Dear Swag,
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\n You are living under a monarchy, over here there has been enlightment and our lives are a whole lot better. Monarchy was horrible we didn\u2019t really have many rights but now we have a lot more and we have a lot of freedom. You guys should over throw your government because life would be so much better. King Louis XIV was one of the rulers and he took away everyone\u2019s power so he had complete control. France was once a rich country but thanks to his love for war they became a poor country. The Philosophes think that we should have freedoms; they believe we should have life, liberty, and property. One of them also believes that women should have more rights. Also they believe we should have no slavery because it is not right to treat other humans like that. They impacted us a lot because their views are getting spread around and people are following them
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\nSincerely
\nCesar Caballero","dateCreated":"1328904852","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"ccaballero1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ccaballero1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50368906","body":"Dear Cesar
\n Life has been increasingly hard here in England. King Louis XIV has taken power and is ruling without any guidance. He has taken all of the power from the Nobles and moved them to his palace which he built with Frances money! There are people that are resisting him they call themselves the Philosophes. One of the first people to oppose King Louis was John Locke he said that government was meant to protect the people\u2019s rights and not be taken away by some Monarch. Baron de Montesquieu who wanted the government to have check and balances which would make it so no one person would have too much power. Then we have Voltaire who is fighting for our freedom of speech which allows us to say anything we want without being imprisoned. That\u2019s about all that is happening here in Europe hope things are going better there.","dateCreated":"1328904860","smartDate":"Feb 10, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"csplitt1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/csplitt1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"50423358","body":"Dear Olga,
\nLife here has been great! Theres an uprising, a rebellion coming along. People are calling it the 'Enlightenment'! Great, isn't it? Theres new philisophes like John Locke whos all up for the individual rights of life, liberty, and property, Mary Wallstonecraft who's fighting for womens rights, and Baron de Montesquieu who believed in check and balances which basically regulates power throughout the government. The people of France are still trying to rebel against the greedy, lavished King Louis XIV but he's too strong. They'd have to have a day's travel to reach him anyways. Well anyways, See ya!","dateCreated":"1329106994","smartDate":"Feb 12, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"kplatt1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kplatt1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"41706637","dateCreated":"1314387341","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"sewen","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/sewen","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1256135246\/sewen-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/ewenclass.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/41706637"},"dateDigested":1531975627,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"first post","description":"We have been talking about the 8 features of Civilization. We have already learned about Cities and Government. Next week we will be learning about the other six features. One of those features is "System of Writing". Today you will use your textbook to answer questions about "System of Writing". Using Chapter 2 in your textbook, please answer the following questions:
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\n1. What type of writing did each of the 4 early river valley civs use? Explain each one in detail.
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\n2. Explain what the Rosetta Stone was, and why it was so important.
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\n3. How do you think the system of writing from the past still affects us today?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"41707453","body":"1. In the Tigris and Euphrates River valley the use the system of writing called cuneiform. The maps where made on clay tablets. They found some as far back as 2300 B.C. Other tablets contain astronomy, chemistry, and medicine. The Nile river valley use the system of writing called hieroglyphics. In this form of writing a picture stood for an idea. As time changed pictures stood for sounds as well. It was written on papyrus. In the Indus river valley they used the system of writing called Harappan. It is impossible to decipher. It is made up of about 400 symbols. It is found on stamps and seals made of carved stone. The yellow river valley used the Chinese language. In the Chinese language each character stands for one syllable or unit of language. People could read the language but didn\u2019t have to know how to speak it. To be a scholar you would have to know 10,000 characters.","dateCreated":"1314389428","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ccaballero1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ccaballero1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41707457","body":"\u2022 1.In the Tigris and Euphrates river in mesopitamia they use the type of writing called cuneiform. Cuneiform was made by sumerians. One of the first known maps was made on a clay tablet. Some tablets have some of the oldest written records of investigations in subjects such as astronomy chemistry and medicine. Some things they wrote about were love, fights, and having kids.
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\n\u2022 The huang river used Chinese writing. The would be able to read and write it but they wouldn\u2019t be able to speak it. This had one major advantage everyone in china because they all would be able to read what every ones writing. Even if their spoken languages were different. A person would need to know over 1,500 characters to be barley able to speak. They would need to know at least 10,000 characters to be really good at speaking.","dateCreated":"1314389440","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"areinwald1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/areinwald1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41707463","body":"1.)
\n\u2022 The Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys form of writing is Cuneiform. Cuneiform made one of the first known maps which was made on a clay tablet in about 2300B.C..Other tablets contain some of the oldest written records of scientific investigation.
\n\u2022 The Nile River Valleys form of writing is Hieroglyphics. This term comes from the Greek words hieros and gluph , meaning \u201csacred carving\u201d. Simple pictographs were the earliest form of writing in Egypt.
\n\u2022 The Indus River Valleys has a language similar to the Niles, Tigris, and Euphrates River valleys. People have not found any inscriptions of there form of language.
\n\u2022 The Yellow River Valleys form of language is Ancient Symbols They have some really unique symbols of writing. The Chinese system of writing had one major advantage. People in all parts of china could learn this language.
\n2.) The Rosetta stone is a giant rock with writing in Latten and Egyptian. The Egyptians language is was not yet known.
\n3.) It is an ancient artifact and it would be cool to learn how to use that ancient language.","dateCreated":"1314389455","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"dguardino1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dguardino1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1357845312\/dguardino1997-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41707465","body":"1.MESOPOTAMIA-in the tigris and euphrates river valey their system of writing is cuneiform. cuneiform is the oldest system of writing. cuneiform was found on a stone tablet.
\n2.NILE-hieroglyphics is the nile river valley's system of writing. it was developed quickly and it is flexable. the name comes from greek terms.
\n3.INDUS-the harrapan language is made up of 400 symbols and seal and stamps. some symbols are alone and the others are mixed with words. the language is impossible to "decrack".
\n4.YELLOW-the chinese system of writing is easiest the spoken language is the same as written. this system is wide spread if you speak a different type of chinese you can still read that. one person needed to know over 1500 different symbols.
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\n5.the rosetta stone was a tablet containing three different languages found in france.
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\n6.i think it still affects us today becuase if we didint have those written languages back then we probably wouldnt have any today.","dateCreated":"1314389456","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"igonzalez1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/igonzalez1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41707495","body":"1.Tigris and Euohrates River in Mesopatamia the system of writing is called cuneiform. Cuneiform is made by Sumerians.
\n1a.The Nile River located in East Africa the system of writing is called hieroglyphics. The term hierogpyphics comes from the Greek wordshieros and gluph meaning "sacred carving."
\n1b.The Huang river Valley has a system of writing called that the chinese cultures use and it is used all around China. It can help unify a large and diverse land, and made control mush easier.
\n1c.The Indus River Valley has a system of writing. Like the other two river valley civilations, the Harappan culture developed a written language. In contrast to cunieform and hieroglyphics, the Harrapan language has been impossible to decipher.
\n2.","dateCreated":"1314389553","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bchamberlain1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bchamberlain1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41708721","body":"1. A. In the Tigris and Euphrates river valley they used cuneiform as their system of writing. Tablets from this river valley contain some of the oldest written records of scientific investigations in the areas of astronomy, chemistry, and medicine.
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\nB. In the Nile river valley they used hieroglyphics as their system of writing. This comes from a Greek term meaning, \u201csacred carving\u201d. Hieroglyphics used a picture that stood for the idea. Later in time, the hieroglyphics system changed so that the pictures could also stand for a sound.
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\nC. In the Indus river valley they used The Harappan language. This form of writing has not yet been understood because linguists have not found any inscriptions that are bilingual. The Harappan language is found on stamps and seals made of carved stone used for trading pottery and tools.
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\nD. In the Yellow river valley they used the Chinese writing. This form of writing each character of writing generally stands for one syllable or unit of language.
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\n2. The Rosetta Stone is a black stone is a stone with writing on it using three scripts, hieroglyphic, a simpler form of hieroglyphic, and Greek. It took linguists a long time to understand. It is important because it provided clues to hieroglyphics.
\n3. The system of writing that we have today takes pieces from each of the first systems of writing and that is why it is important to our system of writing.","dateCreated":"1314393827","smartDate":"Aug 26, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"kwitz1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kwitz1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41725169","body":"1. In the Nile River valley they used hieroglyphics as a writing system. Hieroglyphics came from the Greek words hieros and gluph which mean sacred carving. Hieroglyphics a picture stood for a idea, over time it changed so the picture could be sounds too. For example, if there was a picture of a big rock on top of a guy and he\u2019s lifting it up, it means the man is very strong.
\nIn the Indus river valley they used the Harappan language. It is impossible to decipher. There are about 400 symbols that make up the language.
\nIn the Tigris and Euphrates river valley they used cuneiform as a writing system. One of the first known maps was made on a clay tablet in about 2300 B.C.. There are other tablets that contain scientific investigations.
\nIn the Yellow river valley they used Chinese writing. It contained symbols and characters. People in china all over could read the writing system even if they spoke different languages.
\n2. The Rosetta stone was a shiny black stone inscribed with hieroglyphics, a simpler form of hieroglyphics, and greek. In all of these there was a message.
\n3. we still have artists draw pictures that have meanings in them today. The Harappan language since we don\u2019t know anything about it, it may have predicted something to happen that could cause a lot of trouble, or something that could be very good. With the Chinese writing we don\u2019t have anything that we all know but a good part of us know sign language.","dateCreated":"1314483621","smartDate":"Aug 27, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"JDeFlorio1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/JDeFlorio1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41726013","body":"1.tigris and euphrates river in mesopatamias system of writing was called cuneiform. Cuneiform is made by sumerians.
\n1a.the nile river located in east africa the system of writing is called hieroglyphics. The term hieroglyphics comes from the greek word shieros and gluph meaning "sacred carving."
\n1b.the huang river valley has a system of writing that the chinese cultures use and it is used all around china. It can help unify a large and diverse land, and made control much easier.
\n1c.the indus river valley had a system of writing. Like the other two river valley civilations, the harappan culture developed a written language. In contrast to cuneiform and hieroglyphics, the harappan language has been impossible to decipher.
\n2.the rosetta stone was so important because it was a well known language, it provided dues to the meaning of the hieroglyphics. Still, deciphering the rosetta stone took many years. A french scholar named Jean Franciois Chamollion had finally broke the code of ghe hieroglyphics in 1822.
\n3.we have improved from then and we now have our own system of writing and I think that helped us because if we didnt have something to look off we wouldnt have our own system of writing today.","dateCreated":"1314485910","smartDate":"Aug 27, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bchamberlain1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bchamberlain1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41744463","body":"1: The Tigris and Euphrates River V use writing called Cuneiform.They used this writing to create maps made from clay tablets.Some of the other tablets found had scientific invesigations in astronomy, chemistry, and medicine.
\n*The Nile River Valley used a system pictures called Hieroglyphics.
\nThe word comes from the Greek words hieros and gluph, which means \u201csacred carving.\u201d
\nAn example of this language is an owl, this owl represents an m sound.
\n*The Indus River Vally has a Writing similar to that of the Nile and Tigris River Valleys.
\nThis writing has not yet been discovered due to the fact that there have been no items to help in deciphering it.
\nThere are about 400 different symbols.
\n*The Yellow River Vally form of language is anchient symbols.
\n2: The Rosseta stone is a giant rock with writing in Greek and Egyptian.The Egyption languagh was not yet known, but the stone allowed us to learn and understand the Egyption Hieroglyphics.
\n3:The writing of the past helps us form many of our modern day writing and gave us a reference for making words.","dateCreated":"1314575154","smartDate":"Aug 28, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"csplitt1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/csplitt1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41744989","body":"1) In the Tigris and Euphrates River Valley in Mesopotamia, they used a system of writing called cuneiform, which was one of the earliest.
\nThe Nile River Valley in Egypt used pictures and carvings as there system of writing called hieroglyphics.
\nThe Indus River Valley in India used a system of writing called Harrapan. The Yellow River Valley uses a form of Chinese writing which involves pictures and symbols.
\n2) The Rosetta Stone was a black rock French soldiers found which had 3 different languages on it.
\n3) The past systems of writing helped build a foundation for the systems of writing we use today.","dateCreated":"1314576264","smartDate":"Aug 28, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"bstoneman1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/bstoneman1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41745445","body":"\u2022 The Nile River Valleys used a kind of writing called Hieroglyphics. Comes from the Greek word hieros. simple carvings called pictographs were the first kind of writing in Egypt.
\n\u2022 The language of river valleys kinda like the niles launguages.
\n2 the rosetta stone is a bolder with latin and egyptian written on it.
\n3 without any form of writing im sure we would develope a different form of long range communication without a form of writing. although in the world we live in now would be very difficult to imagine","dateCreated":"1314577426","smartDate":"Aug 28, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"areinwald1996","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/areinwald1996","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"41746627","body":"Test","dateCreated":"1314579854","smartDate":"Aug 28, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"jdonnellan1997","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jdonnellan1997","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":17}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}