The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures

The Invention of Writing was actually very interesting. Even though I am a physical education major, I still enjoy alot of history. You could kind of call me a random history buff if you wanted; random being the key word. This piece had alot of random histoy throughout it. Including that sweet short lesson on how to read hieroglyphs. It was also interesting to think about that the Hebrews had no other major thing like pictures or music, plays, or any of that. What they did create however was one of the most well known books in the world. It makes sense to me as well that writing in the earliest of civilizations had to be mastered by a select few because they didn't have anything like public schooling or educational system to teach anyone about these traits so from birth most children were raised with one major purpose whether that be fighting, farming, hunting, or what have you. So it was up to these select few to write down everything that had to be written and that is what they were taught to do from birth. Overall, I found this piece very interesting with all its historical value and would love reading more stuff closer to this in the future.