During the Renaissance, the economy began to change from lords and serfs to kingdoms and taxation. This change occurred because society was making a shift from wealth derived strictly from the land to wealth derived from urban trading and low-level manufacturing. With money becoming the new sought-after wealth, it encouraged investment and helped expand urban economic centers.
Both egyptian and chinese written languages use pictures as a basis (aka pictographs). On the other hand, our alphabet and the alphabets it stems from base their characters on sounds.
