Alphabetic writing systems

do not enjoy reading and writing we all have a story how it has impacted out life. Literacy has a big impact on us all, if we didn’t have it we would be lost. We wouldn’t be able to text our friends and family to stay in touch. We wouldn’t have anything to do with social media. We would lose entertainment. Those are just the basics of why reading and writing has a big impact on our lives. Majority people have a deeper more meaningful experience with reading and/or writing. I personally have never

The webpage “The Olmecs: (The ‘Rubber People’)” by Alex Whitaker in the subsection “The Olmec’s and Writing” states that the Olmecs were the first Mesoamerican people to create a complex writing system, Whitaker’s evidence is that there have been multiple findings of ‘glyphs’ from ‘authenticated Olmec sites,’ but he does not state where these Olmec sites are located. He also claims that the text emerged from the Chinese Shang dynasty and from the African Manding-she tribe, but this is yet to be proven

Without the usage of ancient writing, we would know nothing about history, which makes an ancient writing systems so important. The first type of writing originated in Mesopotamia, but the writing featured will cover ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, the ancient Greek alphabet, and ancient Chinese writing systems. These written languages originated around their area without the knowledge of other known writing systems. The Egyptians had hieroglyphics, while the Greeks had the Phoenician script, and

These achievements helped the Sumerians with the things that they did in their everyday lives. These advancements included writing, the wheel and the plow. Not only did the the advancements, that the Sumerians made, help them with their lives, we also use them in our everyday lives, such as writing, the plow and the wheel. To begin, Sumerians developed the first form of writing which is called cuneiform. When the ancient Sumerians developed cuneiform it helped, the other people to communicate with

An important technological advancement in the history of mankind was the invention of writing language. Known as cuneiform at the time, its origination hailed from a place in southern Mesopotamia called Sumer in 3500-3000 BCE. The process during its invention involved making markings in wet clay with a reed-like instrument. The reason for its invention was for the flourishment of commerce. The Sumerians needed a way to communicate with merchants and customers from between large expanses of land and

Since its origin as the writing system of the ancient hieroglyphics, through the contribution of a multitude of human civilizations, the new alphabetical system of English has yet developed into its optimum form. Through the systematic research of the alphabet’s origin as the Hieroglyphics, its developmental stage throughout the ancient world and on the advancements of the English alphabet, it will evidently expose the significance of the alphabet ad how collective learning assisted in its development

production of grain and wool, tablets say nothing of individual people not even kings, very little about political and legal systems, social structures, gender relations and religious beliefs, (73) Significance- The information on the tablets is important, however the information not found on the tablets is what is really informative. No mention of religion or government/legal system is found. This suggest that even though there was a central government the authority likely played a different role in people's

something that was crucial to their productivity and organization: a system of writing and recordkeeping. While most ancient civilizations created a form of writing, Mesopotamian and Egyptian societies utilized them for more than just recordkeeping. These advancements serve as ancient origins of how we use written language in the present day. While there are currently countless forms of writing in the modern age, the concept of writing and literacy is treasured

made. When I saw my brother’s handwriting on his paper and I looked at mine, I knew I had to try again. My writing was humiliating and I wanted to hide it. The letter K was the worst I ever had ever seen . Each line the that made up the letter overlapped and extended one another, it was not recognizable. I

etched into clay tablets with a triangle shaped stylus called a ‘calamus’ and then allowed to dry or fired in a kiln to make them last as long as possible. The Sumarians are speculated to be the earliest people to ever use the first known written system in the world. The earliest surviving Papyrus scrolls that contain written text originate in Egypt and date back to around 2400 BC during the Fifth Dynasty of King Neferirkare Kakai, although historians have suggested papyrus could have been used