What Was The Role Of Communication In American Civilization

This document makes it apparent that becoming a scribe is a huge honor and that they should be lucky to be learning how to write because it is going to make their life much easier. They go through multiple occupations that show all the hardships of that carrier. An example of this was the job of a washer man and how “all his limbs are weak, (from) whitening his neighbor’s cloths every day, from washing their linens.” They continue to go on about how the cobbler “mingles with vats” as well as to say “his odor is penetrating” and his hands are described as His hands “red with madder.” In the document Advice to the Young "Be a Scribe” it also discusses jobs such as watchman, merchants, carpenters, and out workers that worked out in the

Mesopotamia developed a form of writing known as cuneiform. Their writing evolved from pictures into signs. Mesopotamians used writing mainly for record keeping. They would put business transactions into writing and had a written code of law. They also had literature like The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Epic of Gilgamesh is about one of the earliest passions of man, the search for eternal life. The Mesopotamians had a school for writing because they wanted trained scribes for

To start, the Sumerians invented cuneiform, which began the path to written language in the future. Cuneiform was the first written language. It was invented over 5000 years ago! (Doc. 1). They used a stylus to make imprints for writing. Written on the clay tablets it was used to keep records, document business

In American society, literacy, or the ability to read and write, is taken for granted. In many areas around the world, and even America before public schooling, the power you carried with literacy was priceless. Deborah Brandt, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said “Literacy like land, is a valued commodity in this economy, a key resource in gaining profit and edge. This value helps to explain, of course, the lengths people will go to secure literacy for them- selves or their children. But it also explains why the powerful work so persistently to conscript and ration the powers of literacy” (Brandt 169). This quote from her publication, Sponsors of Literacy, shows how literacy is power and the people who are in control of it need to influence, or as Brandt would say “Sponsor” (167) those who are illiterate.

The Sumerians created a system of writing to record business transactions and history. They called it “clay tablet”. They also invented the wheel and the plow which helped them to harvest some of their goods. Sumerians created the ziggurats, which were

Scribes were among the first few people in ancient Egypt who knew how to read and write. As someone who was skilled in both the arts and writing, the scribe was supposed to write letters and legal documents, collected taxes, take records and tallies and performed all manner of clerical duties (Kraft). Scribes learned how to read and write from their fathers, since becoming a scribe was passed down to their sons, as well as attending a “scribe-in-training” school which is attached to a temple or the palace (Kraft). Wealthier young-scribes often had a tutor, but most learned by continually copying texts and rehearsing stories, often about manners and religious doctrine (Kraft). These lessons were strictly taught, “as attested by the fact that the ancient Egyptian word ‘seba’ means both ‘teach’ and ‘beat’”

First off all, writing impacted The Sumerian society. The Sumerians also created tablet and styluses to write about. “Scribes created symbols and syllables to write on the tablets. Scribes also were taught math and science by calculating shapes such as rectangles and triangles and dividing a circle into 360 degrees also creating a number system with the number 60”(evidence

The Sumerians made earth tablets and a slice reed stylus to record the cuneiform content (Matthews, Noble & Platt, 2014). Just a little gathering of educated, profoundly prepared copyists could record data utilizing the content, because of its trouble. However, for over five thousand years back the Sumerians, utilizing their cuneiform arrangement of composing, recorded business exchanges and additionally epic verse on mud tablets (Molholm, K. N. (2004). For the thousands of years that have tailed we have enhanced our techniques for correspondence with

Sumerians were the first to invent a writing system called cuneiform. Cuneiform helped keep track of business, trade, records, and they wrote down new ideas. Mesopotamia, also made its own law system, Code of Hammurabi. The Code of Hammurabi explained that your action would result in an equal punishment. For example, it states that “If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct

The Egyptians wrote in a system of writing called hieroglyphics using symbols. Scribes were the people who recorded what was going on and they preserved their beliefs in tombs, temples on papyrus scrolls (type of paper). Sumerians used cuneiform script it is one of the earliest known systems of writing. It uses wedge shaped marks and was on clay tablets; for a pen (or stylus) they used reeds. Egyptians had a pyramid type class system.

Sumerians also started writing, their writing was mostly on the clay tablets, the writing itself was called the Cuneiform. They built ziggurats; the pyramidal shaped temples to appease their Gods, as they felt that everything that

A very important aspect of a working society today is a spoken language. Being able to communicate and understand one another through words opens up an abundance of doors for humanity. Taking language to the next level was the creation of writing systems. Without a writing system, there would be no way to document important events in history or to record facts that will help with further developments. Writing systems not only help with the present, but with future developments. With a spoken language you are only able to spread facts by word of mouth and eventually things will be forgotten or warped, but with a writing system people are able to compose these things and can be kept intact to be read and used for thousands of years. In

Diamond emphasizes the importance of a writing system to a civilization. He states that “knowledge brings power”. And writing brings power to civilization by making it possible to transmit knowledge accurately. Writing enables humans to record information in “far greater quantity and details from more distant lands and more remote times”.

To begin, the Sumerians of ancient Mesopotamia introduced the first forms of written language-Cuneiform. The beginning of writing was an essential tool that transferred thoughts and speech into text. It was extremely important and allowed for the beginning of record keeping of all sorts. “At this point, writing was used only for record keeping, and thus only concrete words(nouns) such as “ox”,”grain” and “sheep” were needed. As society became more complex, the language evolved enabling signs to be used…and eventually abstract thoughts “(Newman 44). The world came to know a unique way of expressing thoughts and learned to convey messages through writing. From then on, records could be kept, history and stories could be recorded and abstract thinking could shine

Learning to read and write, or getting an education in general, is something that is easily handed to us in the world today. Imagine living in a world where you were expected to be uneducated, illiterate, and stupid. In the texts “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, these young boys grew up in different worlds where they were looked down upon and were expected to fail due to the standards they grew accustomed to. Although Douglass and Alexie underwent contrasting hardships on their educational journey, they both shared the realization that learning to read and write was both a curse and a blessing. With those shared