11- Chapter 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
Throughout the book, the authors demonstrates how writing increases power. It was created around the same time as food production, steel weapons, and deadly germs. However, writing was an invention that took a lot of human creativity and would have far more advantages than other products. Although writing seems fairly easy and uncomplicated today, it was very difficult to make. The first people who generated the writing system became frustrated often and would feel the need to give up. They had to come up with a certain symbol that would not only represent the item they were talking about, but also match that sound of their language. Additionally, those people had to take into account how the