The Development Of Ancient Systems Of Writing In Iraq And Egypt
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Ancient systems of writing in the Middle East arose when people needed a
method for remembering important information. In both Ancient Iraq and Ancient
Egypt each of the stages of writing, from pictograms to ideograms to
phonetograms, evolved as a response to the need to express more complex ideas ....
Middle of paper
.... data. These tokens were of varying shapes for various
things, two to three centimetres in size, and used for enumeration and keeping
track of goods and labour.
These tokens eventually had to be stored so they wouldn't be misplaced or
lost. To secure them, they were placed in opaque clay envelopes. To indicate
what was inside the envelope markings were made on it, eventually someone
realized that all you had to do was mark on the clay what was in the envelope
and you discard the toke ....
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