CMST 2CC3 Quiz: Rise and Fall of Communications

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 2CC3
• Professor: Laurence Mussio

Document Summary

Rise & fall of communications empires/bias of communication: clay, writing, lasting throughout the years 3400 bc (iraq and egypt, egyptians wanted to turn it into an art form, 3500 bc for prestige and administration, writing something needed for accountancy system, in egypt it records the culture through time (king, government writing not average joe, everything to do with power and prestige, shifting from egypt to china (oracle bones) records of divination ( what should we do about certain things , shoulder blade of an ox cut holes, stomach bone of turtle (flat surface to write on) into it and applied heat, lots of cracks, looks like scratches 1700 bc, greeks created the alphabet, invented a new type of alphabet, greeks wanted to represent every sound coming out of their mouths, reliant on material technology in a few hundred years new languages started popping up (hebrew, greek, arabic, etc. )