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>I think there is still debate if Chinese writing rose de novo or was influenced by writing from Sumer. Hardly. There's no discernable relationship in that res
by Bayart 5y ago
>I think there is still debate if Chinese writing rose de novo or was influenced by writing from Sumer.
Hardly. There's no discernable relationship in that respect between China and the Near East. As far as anybody's aware, China's writing is indigeneous.
If you want a real isolated and independent civilisation core, look at central America.
- jng 5y agoThere was travel and commerce between far out regions in that period (1,500-3,500 BCE). The connection between the three old-world starts of writing (Sumerian, Egyptian and Chinese) is, AFAIK, not 100% clarified yet. It's widely accepted that American writing was a separate original invention, it makes sense. I believe these days the accepted understanding is that Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is an independent development that may, or may not, have been inspired by Sumerian writing. Not hard to believe: "you know son, these peoples far far away know magic, they're able to make dents in a table containing a story, and then pass on the tablet to someone else and they can retell the story!" Chinese writing may, or may not, have also come up the same way.