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Essay Archive - The Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt
The Development of Ancient Systems of Writing in Iraq and Egypt
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
forms of writing evolved and their use spread....
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