Compare The Spread Of Egypt And Mesopotamia Into The Wider World

How did the writing systems develop and spread from Egypt and Mesopotamia into the wider world? How are those systems related to our own? The invention of the alphabet was said to probably be the most profound media revolution in history. “Egyptian hieroglyphic and Mesopotamian cuneiform with its curious wedge-shaped characters, each required a knowledge of hundreds of signs. To write or even to read a hieroglyphic or cuneiform text required familiarity with these signs and the complex rules that governed their use.” Sources believed the alphabet was originally created by Canaanites. But, the Egyptian hieroglyphs made the invention of the alphabet to even be possible. Each pictograph that Gardiner correctly saw uncovered that each pictograph has a single acrophonic value. “The picture stands not for the depicted word but only for its initial sound. Thus the pictograph bêt, “house,” drawn as the four walls of a dwelling represents only the initial consonant b.” This was a start to helped develop and spread the writing systems. Societies with

Writing made the societies to get smarter and have a more elaborate intellectual life because of their ability to record data and build on past, written wisdom. Writing helped develop a more extensive trading and political systems than those of most earlier agricultural societies. The systems they had back then is equivalent to ours because we to use our writing system to keep track of everything like our taxes, property, money, etc. The world now has different languages and writing systems like they had back then. Learning these systems helped us to be able to trade with other countries and talk business with them like how it helped the people in that time period to be able to trade goods with other