ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Edward Burnett Tylor, Pendulum Clock, Indian Numerals
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Preliterate civilization = civilization before writing was invented. Animism = explanations of the workings of the world and the universe by means of spirits with human-like characteristics. Lindberg argued: scientific thinking can"t occur without written records. The first writing systems written language appeared separately in at least four cultures: china (around 6000 bce, egypt (around 3200 bce, sumer (around 3200 bce, america (olmec an mayan, 300 bce) These four written languages were preceded by protowriting: the use of symbols to represent entities without linguistic information linking them. The writing system that has remained closest to the pictograms is chinese their writing system became logographic (a sign representing a spoken word, which no longer has a physical. The reader for many centuries a large proportion of the population was excluded from acquiring reading skills in addition the early scripts lacked spaces between words, that makes alphabetic language easier to read.
