First Writers—The Sumerians (ePub)
They Wrote on Clay
(Sprache: Englisch)
Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling...
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Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy.
Most civilizations passed down their heritage through orally recited traditionsstories were passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. The Sumerians were the ?rst to write down their oral traditions.
To make the historical record easier, the Sumerians invented calendars with exact dates of events and contracts often corroborated by astronomy. Since Sumerian farmers invented irrigation and created a surplus, other Sumerians could choose to specialize in law, education, architecture, engineering, marketing, and politicsall of which were accompanied by written records.
Using the writings of the Sumerians and modern archaeology, this book will trace the story of the Sumerians, the worlds ?rst writers.
Most civilizations passed down their heritage through orally recited traditionsstories were passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. The Sumerians were the ?rst to write down their oral traditions.
To make the historical record easier, the Sumerians invented calendars with exact dates of events and contracts often corroborated by astronomy. Since Sumerian farmers invented irrigation and created a surplus, other Sumerians could choose to specialize in law, education, architecture, engineering, marketing, and politicsall of which were accompanied by written records.
Using the writings of the Sumerians and modern archaeology, this book will trace the story of the Sumerians, the worlds ?rst writers.
Autoren-Porträt von Gary Arthur Thomson
For a quarter of a century, Dr. Gary Arthur Thomson has taught popular courses in Ancient Near Eastern History at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has used traditio-historical criticism and archaeology to look at the Sumerians, the Hittites, the Phoenicians, the Celts as well as the rise of earliest Israel in Palestine. Based on student evaluations, Dr. Thomson received the Teacher of Th e Year Award at McGill University.Gary Arthur Thomson is a Nebraskan by birth. He was a community organizer in Hastings, Nebraska during the Johnson War on Poverty. Educated in the Humanities at Nebraska Wesleyan University (B.A.), he studied at San Francisco, Dubuque, and Edinburgh to become a teacher and minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. He completed the Economics course of study of the US College of The Armed Forces. During his graduate studies, he worked as an archaeologist in Israel with Hebrew Union College. His Ph.D. dissertation analyzed cuneiform economic clay tablets from Sumer—the world’s ?rst civilization.
He and his wife, Jeanette Kroese Thomson, have taken their McGill students on archaeological study-tours worldwide.
The Thomson’s have four daughters: Kim— director of experimental aeronautical engineering with Bombardier, Shannon— music professor at Concordia University, Jill—professional artist in Edmonton, and Dawn—professional musician in Rochester NY.
Jeanette and Gary live in an environmentally-designed house on Ile Verte near Montreal.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Gary Arthur Thomson
- 2011, 168 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: iUniverse
- ISBN-10: 1462059856
- ISBN-13: 9781462059850
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.11.2011
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