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Also, the development of writing in Egypt seems to be independent of the development of writing in Mesopotamia, though that's just 2000 km away. It's possible
by bloak 5y ago
Also, the development of writing in Egypt seems to be independent of the development of writing in Mesopotamia, though that's just 2000 km away.
It's possible that the Egyptians got the idea of writing from Mesopotamia and commissioned a clean-room implementation though there's little evidence of intellectual property law being a major concern in those days.
- heresie-dabord 5y agoOne wonders if our past hominin cousins would have understood the phenomenon of two teams of lawyers arguing a case before a judge. "Wot's it all about, Org?" asked Maka. "Intellectual property versus progress and betterment for all," replied Org.
- intergalplan 5y agoNot sure it'd go as far back as you're suggesting, but one of the handful of ancient Egyptian stories that survives is called "The Eloquent Peasant" and is entirely about lawyering, basically. ~1800BCE, most likely, but there's a history of Egyptian stories being badly mis-dated, due to both modern and ancient lies about when a story was composed.
- heresie-dabord 5y ago> Not sure it'd go as far back The hypothesis is that our hominin cousins may have been different from us psychologically. In particular, they may not have thought about abstractions as homo sapiens does. In other words, they may have thought us mad. I look at the world and I think I can agree!