Reflection #6

When I think about the word writing and its impact that it has on mans life I reflect back on history. Writing has come a long way since the time of hominid species. I can recall reading about one of the hominids that recorded there life though drawings on walls and caves. These drawings told a story, of things that were going on in their times, how they went through these times and their beliefs. Writing was used for communication, a language I think could be considered above all languages.Writing is and was a language on its own. In the early Egyptians age scribe were literally worshiped for their works of writing. Writing was everything then and is everything now. Writing is what connects to our ancestors our past history and future, our generation before and generation to come. Writing is a legacy and all things were reveled as existence through writing. Writing was so important during Ancient Egypt because everything needed to be recorded as is. Cuneiform writing is the earliest known writings it derived from ancient Sumeria these were writings on clay. The Ancient Egyptians did their writings on plants called papyrus. Although language existed long before writing did there still would be no proof of existence of our ancestors if writing had not exist. Even during slavery time writing was essential to these acts of history. There were maps needed to be drawn for different routes to travel through different continents for trades. When inventions were made they needed to be documented for the benefit of generations to come. Before the ABC's people used pictures as stated above to represent words and nature. Writing was also important for Religion. Manuscripts of relgious books had to be written such as the Koran, the Torah, the Bible and many more important relious books to come.