EDF1005-Reflection #6

With the invention of writing we have been able to discover ancient civilizations due to the language recorded or form of earlier writing such as pictographs. The establishment of writing brought about the alphabet, advanced language, and different forms of communication including pictures. Everything in today’s society develops and advances more and more as time goes by. For example, I’m sure in the future we will have virtual teachers, or even flying cars with no gasoline used. The invention of writing progressed and began to build civilizations and bring people together. The Sumerians used tokens to keep track of their inventory of merchandise and it helped them economically to label things. In other civilizations glyphs were used to record different events. Thanks to all those pictographs and symbols used to represent sounds we have developed to the invention of writing which takes place in today’s world and I don’t know where we would be without it. Everything around us is revolved in writing, from text messaging, writing letters, television, billboards…almost everything around us! Writing gave us written records of what we have today which is the most important thing in society today. This is how it became so crucial to ancient civilization because they began to learn from other civilizations and people began to grow more knowledge about things. Civilization began to develop more and more as time went by. It is said writing began in Mesopotamia, and an earlier civilization invented the alphabet. Without writing we wouldn’t know what the earlier civilizations invented, therefore we wouldn’t have developed anything or become such an advanced society like we are today. We have to give appreciation to writing and the invention of pictographs and hieroglyphics we know what happened in the ancient times. It has lead us to many great things in the world. Each culture or civilization for example like the Chinese, South Asia, Egyptians, Sumerians, Mesopotamians—each had their own form of writing that they invented. The Egyptians began hieroglyphics and from there many things arose.