Through commerce, travel, and treaties
The world has become increasingly interconnected over the past few centuries. (Woolf and Danielp p.322) Global interconnection is defined by the idea of world civilizations, which has had a major impact on today's globalization. According to Woolf and Danielp (p. 331), two important regions, primarily in Iraq where the Sumerians settled to create Mesopotamia, and in the north African regions, where ancient Egypt initiated the civilization levels along the Nile valley, saw the beginnings of civilization in 3200 BC. Writing evidence from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia had a significant effect on the development of civilization, according to Woolf and Danielp (p. 331).
Writing influence on civilization
The development of writing is evidence both in Mesopotamia and the ancient Egypt and this form of communication was mostly used to transfer information in regions and governments. Current scholarship indicates that writing was first developed in Mesopotamia and later in ancient Egypt but the first version of written scrolls in Cuneiform writing system in ancient Sumerian.
Over time, the human civilization has always advanced world civilization and with the emergence of technology through associated with the industrial revolution as manifested in Mesopotamia (Freeman and Charles p.211). Freeman and Charles (p.212) appreciates that the revolutions increased connection among the different civilizations across the world.
Writing in the Paleolithic period
The advancement of human abilities can be traced as far as 2.5 million years ago in the Paleolithic ages of man. The ages are characterized with the use of tools that were primitive and were intended to better the lives of our earliest ancestors and in communication. Writing over the Paleolithic period was majorly based on tools and was mainly encrypted in pictures and recurring symbols known as "Paleolithic art".
The Evidence of early man's use of tools was extracted in Kenya's Lake Turkana showing the use of primitive tools within the dry river beds. The ages are credited for the development and advancement of human abilities in improving the quality life and better use of time. In the much later ages of civilization in Mesopotamia, there is widespread evidence of advancements of human abilities through the use of tools and development of social and religious attitudes.
Writing in Mesopotamia
Unlike the largely spread civilizations like Egypt or Greece, Mesopotamia is on record to have had a culture that embraced social bonds and strict religious restriction that ensured a more unified community with much improved attitude towards women in the society . In the Mesopotamian culture, the social beliefs and customs, declared laws, and even the akkad language improved the appreciation of literacy, rights of women as well as the pantheon of god. The diversity that the concepts in the society brought is believed to have been the more reason as to why Mesopotamia is believed to have been the most significant contributor to human civilization that informed the world civilization.
According to Freeman and Charles (p.215), Mesopotamia is referred as the "Cradle of civilization" because of two major developments that characterized the 4th millennium BCE. First, there is the rise of cities that are recognized to date. Woolf and Danielp (p.331) appreciates the impacts of the emergence of cities in the early days of civilization, a force that contributed to the industrial revolution that did drive the technology that significant propelled world civilizations. Mesopotamia emerges as one of the key players in initiating the concept of cities and service.
The second significant development in the 4th millennium BCE Mesopotamia is the invention of writing that is common today. Although there is evidence that the concept off writing and documentation was also introduced in the early Egypt in the Indus Valley, it is clear that Mesopotamia has a significant use of writing in laws that were common.
Writing in the ancient Egypt
Freeman and Charles (p.215) appreciates that ancient Egyptians believe that the inventions of writing is linked to god Thoth an invention that is referred to as "Egyptian Hieroglyphs". In the ancient Egypt writing that documented laws and cultural scripts, Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus reeds and carving onto stones that painted the walls and tombs. Writing influence several aspects on the ancient Egyptians lives cutting across the social, religious and political structures.
Generally, Woolf and Danielp (p.331) appreciates that significant impacts of writing on world civilizations are evident right from the development of the rule of law in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The appreciation of women's role in the society and appropriate transfer of information between government and region also for part of the factors that characterized the earliest forms of world civilization.
Most of the writing in the ancient civilization were mean for public information unless the content were defined only for political leadership in the region. The rules and laws in Mesopotamia as well as the Hieroglyphs in the ancient Egypt were used in passing information from one generation to another for the purpose of continuation of culture.
Work cited
Freeman, Charles. Egypt, Greece, and Rome: civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Woolf, Daniel R. A global encyclopedia of historical writing. Vol. 2. Routledge, 2014.
