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History: An Exploration of Overlooked Historical Events ; Tuesday ; Period 3
The class was back in the Danger Shop and Riley was reading through a book as the students filed in. It was a book on writing structure and vocabulary use which was embarrassing but he didn't want his own book to sound dull.
When everyone had arrived, he shut the book and jumped into the topic. "Hey guys, glad you all survived your parents/guardians/siblings/other visitors and made it back. Hope you had fun. Today, we're going to talk about something called Rongorongo. Fun name to say, right? Okay, maybe it's just me."
It was probably just you, Riley.
"Rongorongo is considered the Easter Island Mystery. It's an indecipherable hieroglyphic script used by the region's early inhabitants. No other neighboring oceanic people possessed any sort of written language but Rongorongo appeared mysteriously in the 1700's which, when you think about it, was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. But, guess what?"
Come on, just guess. What happens to all good history mysteries?
"The language was lost along with any hope for deciphering it after early European colonizers banished it because of its suspected pagan roots. But history never fades completely and two dozen weathered and burn wooden objections containting Rongorongo script were found and are now safely in museums across the world. None of them are still on Easter Island. They still haven't been deciphered though some have managed to work out some calendrical and genealogical information from the script."
So, not much at all. "Today, we're on Easter Island where I've set up the sim to actually have the Rongorongo markings still intact. What I want you guys to do is explore Easter Island and take a look at the different glyphs of script they used. See what you can decipher or what you think about the writings. See if you can crack the Rongorongo code."
And then he got the sim going and Easter Island appeared before them.
When everyone had arrived, he shut the book and jumped into the topic. "Hey guys, glad you all survived your parents/guardians/siblings/other visitors and made it back. Hope you had fun. Today, we're going to talk about something called Rongorongo. Fun name to say, right? Okay, maybe it's just me."
It was probably just you, Riley.
"Rongorongo is considered the Easter Island Mystery. It's an indecipherable hieroglyphic script used by the region's early inhabitants. No other neighboring oceanic people possessed any sort of written language but Rongorongo appeared mysteriously in the 1700's which, when you think about it, was not that long ago in the grand scheme of things. But, guess what?"
Come on, just guess. What happens to all good history mysteries?
"The language was lost along with any hope for deciphering it after early European colonizers banished it because of its suspected pagan roots. But history never fades completely and two dozen weathered and burn wooden objections containting Rongorongo script were found and are now safely in museums across the world. None of them are still on Easter Island. They still haven't been deciphered though some have managed to work out some calendrical and genealogical information from the script."
So, not much at all. "Today, we're on Easter Island where I've set up the sim to actually have the Rongorongo markings still intact. What I want you guys to do is explore Easter Island and take a look at the different glyphs of script they used. See what you can decipher or what you think about the writings. See if you can crack the Rongorongo code."
And then he got the sim going and Easter Island appeared before them.