Developement of ancient systems of writing in Iraq and Egypt
Date Submitted: 08/10/2004 13:54:16
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 6 pages (1770 words)
Category: / History / Middle East History
Length: 6 pages (1770 words)
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. Satisfaction of this
need gave us the two most famous forms of ancient writing,
cuneiform from ancient Iraq, and hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt.
Both of these …
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…a phonogram stage where the symbols were
uniconsonantal (one consonant), biconsonantal (two consonants) and
triconsonantal (3 consonants), greatly reducing the number of
signs required to write. In its most advanced form hieroglyphics
were composed of three types of signs, pictograms, phonetograms,
and determinatives to help the reading understand a symbols
meaning.
As the Greek name suggests, these hieroglyphics were mainly
used for religious purposes rather than for economic as in ancient
Iraq. The Egyptians believed th
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