Writing & Power

Writing had the advantage that people didn't have to orally carry on laws, religion, and history. People from the past that had the skill to know how to write they have thought us today what they were feeling and thinking. We then gained a lot of history from that. Writing includes a lot of things that help us understand peoples value's, their self view, and their relationship with the universe, and gods. Their writing also gives us an insight on why they behaved the way they did. Cave paintings was a way to self express and to show some type of message. Ideographic  writing is pictures that represent thing or thoughts. This is an unspoken language this can be understood but a lot of people. It requires a lot of memorization of the different sings. Phonetic writing was basically a particular sign or sound that represents a particular word. Only a few of the sings need to be memorized they are able to be grouped in endless number of sounds that make words to also create new words. Those who masted the writing skill had a lot of power and respect from people. In Egypt "scribes" were exempt from physical labor, taxation, and military services.  Writing possessed the capacity to shape the thoughts of those who didn't know how to write.Illiterate people listened to the readings of edicts, proclamations, laws, or religious texts. One of the first things people committed to do when knowing how to write was their own explanation of the creation of the universe, the world, and human begins.