The world is constantly changing and I believe it is going in the right direction. Remember all the classic science fiction your dad read about flying cars and spaceflight? Some of these have actually come true. We have spaceships, even if they're not the sleek Star Wars-style spaceships we dream of. Now, some of these stand out, and for good reason. Thoughts like medicine, agriculture, and many others have changed the world as we know it. Some are ideas we couldn't live without, while others are mere specks in the history of the world. One idea that changed the world is the invention of writing. The world, without this idea, would probably be a world dominated by slaves and dominated by the rich. How would we trade in this barbaric world? To understand this, we must look to the past for answers. The origin of writing lies in the depths of the past, where if a person wanted to communicate with distant people, or simply write a story for the little ones to read, he could choose to draw an image. These images shed light on the past when there were no texts, and the most you could do was change a wall forever if you wanted to create a story, a spiritual image, etc. These pictograms were large and cumbersome and were not an ideal solution. The Mesopotamians decided to find an alternative to the complicated problem. They discovered that they could write in cuneiform, which was a complicated, but more efficient solution. The amount of characters required to write this language ranged from 1,000 in the early texts to around 400 in the Bronze Age. Scribes, people whose only job was to write, earned a lot of money. They tended to belong to today's upper middle class group and were highly respected in ancient times. Now that we've covered... half of the paper... problems/conditions/chest-lungs/pages/Pneumonia.aspxSarah, Holt, dir. "Deciphering your genetic code." NOVA. Public Broadcasting Service: WGBH, March 28, 2012. Television. ."Cystic fibrosis." Mayo Clinic. NP Network. 6 February 2014."Writing." Writing page no. Network. 3 February 2014. index.html>. Carmine, Douglas. World History: Ancient Civilizations. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell. 2006.Print."Mesopotamia for children - Cuneiform." Mesopotamia for children: cuneiform. NP Rete. 11 Mar 2014."Ancient Hebrew Research Center" Ancient Hebrew Research Center - Home Pagen.pag. Network. February 4 2014. .