[HIS 395] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (32 pages long)
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The communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence. We have created and recorded knowledge from the beginning of time. Humans have a programmed need for creating and sharing information it"s i(cid:374) our dna! Oral history is the earliest form of information sharing; our minds are the computers. Our (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds are(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s great at re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)eri(cid:374)g spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)s or details: but we still want to make information easy to access and easy to find. There are more words in the written form than the oral form. Earliest writing systems date back to mesopotamia and mesoamerica: sumerian language, cuneiform system of writing. Olmec, mayan, totonacan families among others: some are extinct but others live on, were largely replaced with spanish. Egyptian hieroglyphics: egyptian and sumerian considered the earliest true writing systems, evolutio(cid:374) of the hierogl(cid:455)ph . China and india also developed their own systems. Stone was the notepaper of early man: cavemen and cave walls, stone tablets.
