1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Alexandra [31]
3 years ago
9

How did the development of writing change the societies of ancient Mesopotamia and,specifically, the lives of their peoples? Cou

ld those societies be described as "literate"? Why or Why not? Which group might have been most affected?
History
1 answer:
Juliette [100K]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

Explanation:

In most places, writing started about the same time ancient civilizations emerged from hunter-gatherer communities, probably as a way to keep track of the new concept of "property," such as animals, grain supplies or land.

By 3000 B.C. in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), and then soon after in Egypt, and by 1500 B.C. in China, people were scribbling, sketching and telling their world about their culture in a very permanent way.

When memory failed

When ancient Mesopotamians started settling down onto farms surrounding the first cities, life became a bit more complicated. Agriculture required expertise and detailed recordkeeping, two elements that led directly to the invention of writing, historians say.

The first examples of writing were pictograms used by temple officials to keep track of the inflows and outflows of the city's grain and animal stores which, in the bigger Sumerian urban centers such as Ur, were big enough to make counting by memory unreliable.

Officials began using standardized symbols — rather than, say, an actual picture of a goat — to represent commodities, scratched into soft clay tablets with a pointed reed that had been cut into a wedge shape. Archaeologists call this first writing "cuneiform," from the Latin "cuneus," meaning wedge.

The system developed quickly to incorporate signs that represented sounds, and soon all of Mesopotamia was taking notes, making to-do lists and (presumably) writing love letters.

Egyptian writing — the famous hieroglyphics — developed independently not long thereafter, under similar circumstances, historians think.

A few thousand years later, as variations on the two systems spread throughout the region, the entire ancient world had writing schemes that vastly improved the efficiency of economies, the accountability of governments and, maybe most importantly to us, our understanding of the past.

I am not sure this is what you are looking for but hope this helps

You might be interested in
What did the u.s government encourage the growth of the railroad industry in the late 1800s
kari74 [83]

In 1862 the Pacific Railway Act was approved by Congress, encouraging the construction of a transcontinental railroad. Some of these railroads were built with assistance from the Federal Government.

6 0
3 years ago
In the 1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland, which of the following branches or agencies increased its power substantia
Allisa [31]

Answer:

B

Explanation:

Federal I just took the test

8 0
3 years ago
How were the 20th-century independence movements in Vietnam and Algeria similar ?
bixtya [17]

Both independence movements (Vietnam and Algeria) was launched and organized a communist or a nationalist’s party to fight in the battle. When the war was successfully ended and gaining their victory they proclaimed their independence and grabbed their democracy that made all the communists united.

7 0
3 years ago
Which of the following is a benefit for Americans as globalization increases? lower prices for manufactured goods higher wages f
seropon [69]

Answer:

Lower prices for manufactured goods

Explanation:

6 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Help me!!
Marysya12 [62]

Answer:

because the colonies were afraid of losing their own autonomy or self government

Explanation:

5 0
2 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • In what way does deconstructionism differ from all other approaches to literary criticism?
    9·2 answers
  • By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States
    12·1 answer
  • Which of the following reasons explains why Hudson founded New York harbor?
    13·1 answer
  • Which of the following best describes the United States?
    6·1 answer
  • To replace the dying native population, the Europeans found slaves in Asia.<br>True<br>False​
    12·1 answer
  • Luftwaffe from flying because oil became more scarce.
    14·1 answer
  • Contrast Sherman’s campaign through Georgia &amp; the Carolinas to Grant’s campaign through Virginia.
    6·2 answers
  • How did these factors lead to changing demographic patterns in the U.S.?
    12·1 answer
  • 4. How did Ghana’s location help it become a great trading kingdom?
    15·1 answer
  • How was God invented? And how do you thing he made everything?
    9·2 answers
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!