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Nov. 3rd, 2006 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It was in Babylonia that music, medicine and mathematics were developed, where the first libraries were created, the first maps drawn, where chemistry, botany and zoology were conceived. At least, we assume that is so. Babylon is the home of so many "firsts" because it is also the place where writing was invented and therefore we know about Baylon in a way that we do not know history before them. Ibid, p.76.
There was so much information that humans had to come up with a new way to control its flow. Relying on human brain to remember all of it just wasn't good enough.