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Egyptians used a different alphabet than people from Mesopotamia. Identify and describe the alphabets used by both ancient civilizations.

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The Egyptians used hieroglyphs, a picture based alphabet that could be used to sound out words. Mesopotamia used cuneiform, which used wedged shaped marks on clay tablets.
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Answer:

Egyptians used the Hieroglyphics as the alphabet, and in Mesopotamia, it was used the Cuneiform alphabet.

Step-by-step explanation:

In some respects the writing in Egypt and Maesopotamia is similar. Both are based on a phonetic alphabet and do not mark the vowels in the word. However, they have their differences.

In Egypt we have the famous hieroglyphics, a system based on small icons that are associated with figures of reality and that make their sense from the relation between the enunciation of terms and the name of the being that appears as an image. Meanwhile, the mesopotamian cuneiform is composed of less delimited figures, going through a process of abstraction of the figures and basing the marking of writing on three wedge shapes (the vertical, the horizontal and the open).

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