Reflection Paper #6 Invention of Writing

The certain aspects of the world’s ancient civilizations were improved as a result of the invention of writing. It targeted the beginning of a new information/ communication age. The information gathered through writing allowed civilizations to pass in traditions easily. Most of all civilizations history could be preserved for the descendants. Stories were told from the written pictures recorded. Truths were uncovered as the various writings were uncovered from archaeological finds.
The original use of writings was to use as a method of keeping count of properties. A pictograph describing that article was owned by that individual. This would allow the owner to keep a tab. The pictographs were used as a common form of communication even when the language spoken was different from each other.
With the advent of writing, societies were able to communicate with each other. Information could go from place to place without changing the message. Libraries were created to hold this new information. Consequently, with writing, kings were able to sustain their empires. Once they were able to have control over their writers they were able to control their subjects. A writer was in good social standing as not everyone was able to such feat.
Writing was used as another from of communication. They mainly used it to keep tab of the goods that they had. Writing was used to record history. More traditions and history could be passed from one generation to the next through writing. It could give a more accurate account if written correctly. It was also used to manipulate and terrorize members of the society. With writing came knowledge and through knowledge one will gain power. The people who were able to write were held in high esteem, members of the Catholic Church were one such society that was held in such regard. Writing was one of the ways that kings and the church kept power over their people. Since regular subjects could not read the writings they were lacking knowledge and thus powerless.