ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Animism, Phoenician Alphabet, Horticulture
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Geological timeline: the earth is around 4. 6 billion years old. Different stages in the history of the earth. South america: parallel to that, more advanced tools were developed, hypothesis for immense changes around that time: creation of language that was more than just simple sound signals. For western cultures the development in the fertile crescent (ancient mesopotamia and. Ancient egypt) were important, because they e. g. invented the wheel. Lindberg: only when things are written down, can inconsistencies become apparent, so scientific thinking needs written records. First: protowriting = use of symbols to represent entities without linguistic information linking them: then written language appeared separately in at least 4 cultures: china (6000 bce), egypt (3200bce), sumer (3200bce), america (olmec and mayan, 300bce) Socrates (470-399 bce): completely against writing things down -> would make lazy and discourage from studying: plato, his student, later documented his life and work.
