> [!infobox] <s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 1 topic, 4 evergreens</em></s> #### [[Sumerians invented writing to store large amounts of data]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^298648748]] > <cite>[[Yuval Noah Harari]]</cite> Between 3500 and 2500 BC this writing would transform from a [[partial script]] used to for storing and classifying tax and data to the [[full script]] [[cuneiform]] used to represent [[Mesopotamia|Mesopotamian]] [[language]]. This became key in the maintenance of the [[Akkadian Empire]], because:: [[Empires are born through conquest and maintained by bureaucracy]] and it explains:: [[The first recorded name might have been an accountant]] As our first record or [[writing]] in [[history]] this is part of:: [[How do we use writing to communicate]] ### <hr class="footnote"/> **Status**:: #EVER/SEED *edited 7:35 AM - July 08, 2022* **Topics**:: [[writing]], [[knowledge management]], [[history]] #### References ![[Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari#citation]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^299110283]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^298648744]] > ![[10_Sources/books - Sapiens#^299110280]]