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How do you call a civilisation before writing was invented?A preliterate civilisation
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How do we call a world view with the belief that objects and nature are inhabited by spirits with human-like characteristics, which cause events to happen?Animism
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Of what components did the first writings consist?
- Pictograms and phonograms
- Pictograms and phonograms
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How do we call a sign that represents a sound or a syllable of spoken language; forms the basis of writing systems?A phonogram
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How do we call a sign representing a spoken word, which no longer has a physical resemblance to the word’s meaning?A logograph
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How do we call a study method in which students unquestioningly memorise and recite texts that are thought to convey unchanging truths instead of thinking critically about them?The scholastic method
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What did language and numbers made possible to do?They made it possible to represent things in the world and represent the relation between things in the world.
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How does writing make
religion and money possible?- Writing makes it possible to
convey ideas to other people - writing makes it possible to have
shared ideas - religion is based on having
shared ideas. - money is based on a shared value of something
- Writing makes it possible to
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How does language and numbers develop a concept of truth?
- Since language and numbers represent the things in the world and the relations between them,
- truth is the representations by language and numbers that are consistent with the actual objects and relations in the real world.
- Since language and numbers represent the things in the world and the relations between them,
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How does writing cause the possibility of
creating acivilisation with a complex social system ?- Through writing knowledge of
agriculture could beconverted to different generations, this made it possible to stay in one place and establishsettlements . - Produce more food than is needed to feed everyone, so not everyone has to constantly arrange food.
- This allows a community in which different people
fulfill differentroles , where higherranked individuals have time.
- Through writing knowledge of
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