World History 1 Period 7
10/30/14
Compare Mesopotamian's writing system to modern times technology.
Link 1: Advantages of Mesopotamia's writing system.
http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/connections/class/ancient/mesopwriting.htm
Link 2: Modern times writing technology.(Advantages of Email)
1)http://www.ask.com/technology/benefits-email-8a28f0b6f5b44d99
2)http://www.ehow.com/info_10034614_email-better-letters.html
Mesopotamia is one of the greatest civilizations in this world, it has invented and created so many
things that we are still use them as part of our life in the modern times. For example, the hammurabi
code is kinda like our laws today, we use them to judge something and make justice decisions and the
Mesopotamians use them for those reasons, too, but it was in some cruel ways. Also, in
Mesopotamia, people drank beer and use beer as payment and other things as well, beer was so
important for Mesopotamians and nowadays it's also an important way that brings people together for
socialized. But what I want to talk about is one of the best inventions in the world --- Writing.
Over five thousand years ago, people who lived in Mesopotamia developed a form of writing and
used it to record different types of information and also used them for communicating. The earliest
writing was also base on pictograms, pictograms was a way to record basic information such as taxes,
people used reeds to write things down. And then cuneiform appeared and took place of pictograms,
it's one of the oldest writing in the world. In Mesopotamia, it has a great literature which called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Writing has been used for centuries and centuries, it's so important in our life and we could do nothing without the skill of writing. It provides large amount of information for us, it helps us to
write and record lots of information about history, if we have no writing system, we wouldn't know so
much things about ancient time period. You can see how essential is the form of writing. And with
the development of writing, we have different languages, cultures and different types of writing
systems. We put all of them together and create this diverse world. And with the great development
of technology, we soon have email and text functions in our daily life, and these things actually are
part of the expand of writing and it soon starts replace writing and became really useful in some ways.
In 21 centuries, technology has controlled our life and we rely on it. Email is a great example that
shows why technology is important. It's so much different from writing, when we want to send mails
to someone, it takes a long time to write a letter and send it to that person, but with Email, it's so
much faster, and you can contact with anyone you wants as long as they have Email, too. It's easy for
you to lose a letter but it's hard for you to lose an Email. In addition, Email is very secure .Also, it's
even FREE and you don't even go to the mailbox to get them.
Last but not least. Why I said that Email is come from writing is because if people don't understand
how to spell and know the meaning they couldn't create the system of computer system of writing and
we wouldn't have Email. So in my point of view, if we don't have Sumerians developed the writing,
we won't have so many easy technology today. In an easy way to say, I think both writing skill and
technology's conveniences are important and necessary'
