CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sumer, Amay, Formal Language
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Things left out of history are caused/resulted from power figures. Idea of communication is to transfer information from one to another (happens in many forms) Historiography is an idea that comes up in the foreword in the textbook but isn"t called that (useful word for this class) A study of how history has come to be understood in the way that it has (a history of history, if you like) History has progressed form oral to literate to electronic. History ad media is a series of stuff that just gets better and better (excels previous medias) Difficult for people in an illiterate society to really understand or comprehend a society so different from theirs. Periods in history (like pre-electronic age to electronic age) the moment in history were it"s harnessed but everything that happens at the ends and the beginnings of periods blur together.
