Hammurabi and the Babylonian empire (1792-1750 BCE) centralized bureaucratic rule and regular taxation. Which help spread its costs more evenly over the population of Mesopotamia. The Egypt also bureaucracy and tax their people with tax …show more content…
In the begin, they use writing for transaction and tax collection in Pictographs. 2900 BCE graphic symbols to represent sounds, syllables, ideas, as well as physical objects, is Cuneiform. They will combine pictographs and other symbols on “wedge shaped” wet clay that was bake. Education became an important a to learn to read and write cuneiform so people can become scribes or government officials. If they studies further they can become priests, physicians or professionals: engineers and architects. A work of Literature in huge libraries: The Epic of Gilgamesh's, scholarly literary texts, diplomatic correspondence and administrative records. Hieroglyphic writing was Egypt with Mesopotamian influence. Pictographic was on the monument, buildings and mostly in temples called hieroglyphs which are a Greek words meaning “holy inscription”. They are survives on sheets of papyrus: a paper-like material. Instead of wet clay like the Mesopotamian. The Egypt also use Hieratic a simplified cursive form of hieroglyphs. The Egypt also have a story about how important getting an education is a call. “the satire of the trades.” Which show how a Handsome education is