DGP CHAPTER 2 Writing and Power

Reflection:
Back in the early civilizations writing was a way people used to communicate with one another. Writing back then was not only writing with a pen and paper. Cave paintings, message sticks, wampum belts knotted cords, bean patterns and more were forms of ways to communicate with each other. As years passed by people made writing a little bit difficult by putting specific codes. Back then there were 2 ways of writing ideographic and phonetic. Ideographic was through the use of pictures and phonetic signs of roman alphabet. During these times people did not have paper like us, so people had to write these writings down on a papyrus, which is a type of paper that the Egyptians had made. Within different cultures there were different styles of writings that they used. These writings have then been important historical documents that people today keep as evidence. Historians take care of these documents very carefully so that no mistakes have been made when translating them or preserving them. Chapter two gives us a way to think about how people back then were very intelligent in the way how they communicated with one another. The chapter shows us how people started out by drawing and then slowly developing into phonetics. The chapter gives a broad view on how each different cultures had their own different ways of communicating. This leads us to how we are today, people who live in America and people who live in France do not speak and write the same. This gives reveals to us that since different cultures have different ways of writing, it shows that there are different levels of power. This means that people who are writing are probably in the upper class, so the more people are writing the more knowledge and power there is in a country.