Sumeria, Babylon And Egypt: Early Urban Civilizations Or Not?
Bowie, Tomeka C.
History-114
9-15-2014
Dr. R. J. Simms
From the Flintstones’’ Caves to Towns and then to Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt: Early Urban Civilizations or Not?
“We are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before…” Although preceding is a quote from Alice Walker’s “Revolutionary Petunias,” and found in A Shining of Hope: The History of Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson (p.192); it also has significance when discussing the evolution of civilizations from the Flintstones’’ caves to towns and then Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt. This topic has been explored and examined by many writers from the point of view that the …show more content…
al., A History of World Societies, a civilization can be defined as a writing system will be developed and it will have an impact on other cultures. The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. All of these diverse writing systems, which encompass both logo phonetic, consonantal alphabetic and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform. The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about religion and the government. They invented written scripts that could be used to record this type information. The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic. I interviewed my uncle Roy Bowie, Jr., who owns Bowie’s Liquor Store, and I asked him, “How important is writing in today’s society?” He responded by saying, “Writing is a form of communication. If you can’t write, you are limited from accomplishing a lot in life. If you can’t read, then you most definitely cannot write.” (Bowie, Jr.,
History-114
9-15-2014
Dr. R. J. Simms
From the Flintstones’’ Caves to Towns and then to Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt: Early Urban Civilizations or Not?
“We are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrows, is always a measure of what has gone before…” Although preceding is a quote from Alice Walker’s “Revolutionary Petunias,” and found in A Shining of Hope: The History of Black Women in America by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson (p.192); it also has significance when discussing the evolution of civilizations from the Flintstones’’ caves to towns and then Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt. This topic has been explored and examined by many writers from the point of view that the …show more content…
al., A History of World Societies, a civilization can be defined as a writing system will be developed and it will have an impact on other cultures. The Sumerians were one of the earliest urban societies to emerge in the world, more than 5000 years ago. They developed a writing system whose wedge-shaped strokes would influence the style of scripts in the same geographical area for the next 3000 years. All of these diverse writing systems, which encompass both logo phonetic, consonantal alphabetic and syllabic systems, became known as cuneiform. The ancient Egyptians believed that it was important to record and communicate information about religion and the government. They invented written scripts that could be used to record this type information. The most famous of all ancient Egyptian scripts is hieroglyphic. I interviewed my uncle Roy Bowie, Jr., who owns Bowie’s Liquor Store, and I asked him, “How important is writing in today’s society?” He responded by saying, “Writing is a form of communication. If you can’t write, you are limited from accomplishing a lot in life. If you can’t read, then you most definitely cannot write.” (Bowie, Jr.,