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Jiang says early writing in Egypt and Sumeria solved an economic problem by functioning as a contract for labor and payment.
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Jiang says early writing in Egypt and Sumeria solved an economic problem by functioning as a contract for labor and payment.
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"...need to pay these workers, right? So, writing system became a contract, all right? A contract. So, basically, the writing system, at first, was..."
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"So, what this is saying is, if you work for me, I promise to give two people two bushels of wheat, okay? And so,..."
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Greek civilization begins as a reversal: chaos, illiteracy, and poverty force the polis, the alphabet, and Homer, until poetry teaches a new human being how to see, feel, and think.
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