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Published on Feb 23, 2017 Sumer was the first urban civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia, modern-day southern Iraq, during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze ages, and arguably the first civilization in the world with Ancient Egypt and…
Does an Alphabet Build a Different Brain?Influential twentieth-century scholars have argued that the alphabet represents the apex of all writing and that, consequently, alphabet readers “think differently”Claim 1: The Alphabet is more efficient than all other writing systems. Efficiency is…