Recording History

Recording history

Writing is one of the most important creations to date. Archeologist dated writing as far back as forty-thousand years ago. The first style of writing was called pictograph, this style can best be described as kids drawings, these drawings were found mostly in caves, and these cave drawing were there to tell a story and also to warn others of dangers. As early men evolved from roaming creatures to into a community base existence this is when writing started to serve a new purpose. Because men now were farmers and hunters and now live in communities they had to find a way to keep track of their cattle, grains and other properties. With the invention of the wheel and the discovery of fire men were now able to travel distances and now with writing able to document how far they’ve traveled.

Writing was not granted to anyone even those that could’ve afford to pay to learn, only the kings and pharoahs were given the right to learn this art. The priests were the only scribers around and the few apprentices they took under their wings to teach them. The scribe school was the harshest school because these people were being prep to serve the pharaoh or the king and other government figures in the land. They were not allowed to make any errors even while in the school, to make a mistake at this level could be punished severely; some were beating within inches of their lives. Once a scribe has completed his training he will now be assigned a post, the highest honor would be to serve the king, they would be on call twenty four hours a day, they are responsible to keep records of the kings treasures and you definitely do not want to make any mistakes there and to write down the kings rulings and make laws anything the king tells them to, at time the scribe can be one of the most powerful person besides the king, because through the pen he writes history. The Egyptian also improved the old writing style of

hieroglyphics and established a new style of writing which was called arcograph, this form of writing is what gave birth to what westerners call the alphabet system, instead of a picture meaning a great deal of things, now a simple picture stands for a letter and each letter can be combined with others to created a sound or word. The arcograph and hieroglyphic still shared similar characteristics. Without writing our history would be lost and human evolution would have never been recorded.