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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - History remembers Mesopotamia for its kings and ziggurats, but the real story lies in the hands of scribes, farmers, brewers, and merchants who invented the foundations of modern life. This book traces how everyday people in ancient Iraq created urban planning, legal codes, mathematical systems, and written language between 4000 and 500 BCE-not through divine mandate, but through practical problem-solving.Drawing on archaeological evidence, cuneiform tablets, and recent excavations, the narrative follows the lived experiences of those who transformed marshlands into Uruk, Babylon, and Nineveh. From temple accountants developing the first administrative records to artisan guilds establishing trade networks across three continents, these innovations emerged from necessity, experimentation, and collective ingenuity.The book reexamines familiar landmarks-Hammurabi's Code, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Hanging Gardens-through the lens of the workers, women, and lower officials who made them possible. It explores how irrigation management required unprecedented social cooperation, how debt crises led to the world's first written laws, and how multilingual trade created the earliest dictionaries.Relevant for readers interested in how complex societies emerge, how technology shapes culture, and how ancient solutions address modern challenges in urban planning, water management, and social organization.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Beyond the Rivers: Mesopotamia's Forgotten Innovators | How Ordinary People Built the World's First Cities, Laws, and Writing [.] | Alina Frost | Taschenbuch | Englisch | epubli | EAN 9783565214471 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Neopubli GmbH (Imprint: epubli), Köpenicker Str. 154a, 10997 Berlin, produktsicherheit[at]epubli[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Ranging from cuneiform to shorthand, from archaic Greek to modern Chinese, from Old Persian to modern Cherokee, this is the only available work in English to cover all of the world's writing systems from ancient times to the present. Describing scores of scripts in use now or in the past around the world, this unusually comprehensive reference offers a detailed exploration of the history and typology of writing systems. More than eighty articles by scholars fromover a dozen countries explain and document how a vast array of writing systems work--how alphabets, ideograms, pictographs, and hieroglyphics convey meaning in graphic form.The work isorganized in thirteen parts, each dealing with a particular group of writing systems defined historically, geographically, or conceptually. Arranged according to the chronological development of writing systems and their historical relationships within geographical areas, the scripts are divided into the following sections: the ancient Near East, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Additional parts address the ongoing process of decipherment of ancient writingsystems; the adaptation of traditional scripts to new languages; new scripts invented in modern times; and graphic symbols for numerical, music, and movement notation.Each part begins withan introductory article providing the social and cultural context in which the group of writing systems was developed. Articles on individual scripts detail the historical origin of the writing system, its structure (with tables showing the forms of the written symbols), and its relationship to the phonology of the corresponding spoken language. Each writing system is illustrated by a passage of text, and accompanied by a romanized version, a phonetic transcription, and a modern Englishtranslation. A bibliography suggesting further reading concludes each entry.Matched by no other work in English, The World's Writing Systems is the only comprehensive resource covering every majorwriting system. Unparalleled in its scope and unique in its coverage of the way scripts relate to the languages they represent, this is a resource that anyone with an interest in language will want to own, and one that should be a part of every library's reference collection. A reference volume describing all ancient and modern scripts of the world. Scripts are illustrated by texts with full explanation and grammatical analyses, and each discussion has a bibliography leading to more technical literature. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.