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UNB/Year 5/Semester 1/HIST1001/In class notes.md

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 			- Carved into wood and stone
 			- Each material/method has its own rate of surviavbility, what does this mean if certain genres of text were written on certain materials
 - Key takeaways
-	- Writing is independantly invented in multiple places at different times
-	- We use this inevntion of writing to demarcate a major divisiion in historical eras (prehisoroy vs history)
-	- The ivention of writing is a gradual process
-	- Early writing is invened for a variery of purposes
-	- Writing is not neccesaarily analogous to recored speech
-	- Writing is inenvted in already cmplex sociertys with forms of proto-writing and not ex-novo (out of nothing)
+	- Writing is independently invented in multiple places at different times
+	- We use this invention of writing to demarcate a major division in historical eras (prehistory vs history)
+	- The invention of writing is a gradual process
+	- Early writing is invented for a variety of purposes
+	- Writing is not necessarily analogous to recorded speech
+	- Writing is invented in already complex society with forms of proto-writing and not ex-novo (out of nothing)
+## Cuneiform
+- Overview
+	- ...
+- Death
+	- Cuneiform probably stopped being written somewhere around 1st c CE, replaced by Aramaic and Greek
+	- Later writers claimed their teachers (or teacher's teacher) knew the writings of the Chaldean's
+	- Travelers in the Middle East from the 15th century onward saw the marks and thought they were decorative
+- Decipherment
+	- Carsten Niebuhr traveled to Persepolis (1764) and made excellent copies of the inscriptions, identified that there were three scripts in use
+	- Friedrich Munter guessed (1802) that in the Old-Persian inscription the most common word was probably "king"
+	- Georg Gotefend knew that later inscription started with "kings name great king, king of kings, son of kings father the king" and started guessing Persian kings