IMPORTANT Fact About WRITING:

IMPORTANT Fact About WRITING:

IMPORTANT Fact About WRITING: The assumption that illiterate societies never had writing is not supported by evidence. The number of people WHO wrote in the past (between 3000 BCE and 1000 CE) in each city-state was so small (limited to scribes, accountants, the elite and rulers) that sometimes when a city or town was conquered Or Fell writing disappeared for 300-500 years, leaving no trace that it had existed. Evidence tends to be when a word exists for “scribe” but there is no evidence of a writing system. The academic proof is that mainland Greece didn’t produce any writing between 1160 BCE and 700 BCE, even though after many excavations and decipherment work academics now know that Cretan Hieroglyphs, Linear and Linear B existed. We don’t know how many African and non-African writing systems have perished due to various factors such as displacement, disease, conflicts, drought, climate change, purges, raids, sieges, or periods of peasants revolts by illiterate commoners against literate rulers.