How Writing Changed the World

[ithildin]

Humans had been speaking for a couple hundred thousand years before they got the inspiration or nerve to mark their ideas down for posterity.

But when a Mesopotamian people called the Sumerians finally did scratch out a few bookkeeping symbols on clay tablets 5,000 years ago, they unknowingly started a whole new era in history we call, well ... history.

The entire article here.

Comments

[silvercobwebs.livejournal.com]

It's funny how so many world-changing events supposedly happened approximately five thousand years ago, isn't it? ; )

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[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Interesting, huh?