10.2 An Animated Movie on History of Writing

10.2 An Animated Movie on History of Writing

10.2 An Animated Movie on History of Writing

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Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing





If you can't watch it here, follow this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdO3IP0Pro8

For this lesson, I am giving you some relief, due to all the lunacy happening. So, enjoy an animated movie to learn about History of Writing.

No task related to this! Let's see how many of you have developed the habit of getting into discussions, sharing your opinions, helping others... if there are no responsibilities given to you.

Happy Learning!
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by Muhammad Luqman kasi s/d/o Muhammad asghar kasi -
Thank you ma'am .. its a interesting movie with very interesting informations about the history of writing.
Like how a Egyptian named Toth presented the idea of writing to king felis and how he refused his idea of writing saying we need to use brains not books. He told Toth that you have invented a drug that will produce forgetfulness in the minds of learners.
About 70,000 years ago in France, the journey of writing started from Pictographs(no stories no words only pictures), then ideographs, then logo graphs were invented, after that cuneiform was invented(the idea of Sumerians who made icons on rocks), then Rebus was invented (it gives icons and pictures a name or a sound so that logographs can also be read as sound), then going through various ideas of writing like syllab, abjads, alphabets,and alphasyllabary.abjad was spread in every language except Egyptian language who was stuck in their traditional way.
The idea of writing was followed by Mesoamerica 2900 years ago, China 3200 years ago, Crete 4000 years ago, Egypt and sumer 5000 years ago.
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by Razarabbani s/d/o Fazel Mohammad -
Thoth pill he has an Egyptian God invented writting.he shared his discovery with king Thomas .but the king was impressed with new system because he believed that I would be cause forgetfulness in student so know look around you and notice how people are constantly writting whether it's on paper,phone and computer etc.writting has become more important as civilization progress.thusand year ago artist took etching and painting image of the animals they saw around them paper has not invented then yet .their work of art were made in the wall of the caves where they spent their time.
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by Fiza Mengal s/d/o Jaffer khan Mengal -
this a great video to know about the historyb of writing now we came to know about how the egyptians know about writing.
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god,
whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to
him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and
calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his
great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god
Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in
that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes,
and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To them came Theuth
and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be
allowed to have the benefit of them. He enumerated them, and Thamus
enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and
censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take
a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame
of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will
make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific
both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious
Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of
the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in
this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of
your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which
they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in
the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will
trust to the external written characters and not remember of
themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to
memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but
only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will
have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will
generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.
The Egyptian god Thoth is credited in the ancient pantheon with inventing the intellectual technology of writing. In the story told by Socrates in Plato’s dialogue The Phaedrus, Thoth brought the invention of writing to King Thamus, but found that his gift was unwelcome. King Thamus thought writing would weaken man’s memory. He feared that writing, as a form of outsourcing, would wither natural abilities in men rather than enhancing them.
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by Amna Jabeen s/d/o Zaheer Ahmed -
Fiza the way you explained is Marvelous. My all confusions have been finished. Nnw I am perfectly able to write about this.
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by Muhammad asif s/d/o Allah din -
This is the story of ancient people of middle east explaining the invention of writing more then 5000 years ago.specially it started from king Thomus and god Thoth's.
History of writing traces the development expression language by letter or other Marks and also the studies and description of these developments. In the history that where writing begins.
Thoth represents his discovery of art of writing to the king of Egypt Thoums and he rejected it and did not impressed and said to thoth ,
Oh clever thoth this invention will produce forgetfulness in the mind of learners.with he neglect of their memory .and advised him to try invention about icons thousand of people's will recite it and your mind is better then you think,
Love rocks 17000 years ago was cold and getting cold and too dangerous this may be the history of writing, beautiful and complex artistic representation of the animals around them.
There was no story in writing just pictures were standing for things and history.
Pictugraphy were languages and expressions became repeatable and popular and changing of art to an other things mapping to specific things.
Metonymy, this principle follow like represented general nebulous idea .like when we cut of the leg of human picture we get general idea walking or moving.
And they used to draw a idea from another idea like concept of man is concept of horse finally the used to change one picture to another. For counting the used lines like one line for one sheep two lines for two sheep's and draw sheep pic with lines .this was their concept of counting. 
Logograph emerged and flourished in the early civilization of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Mexico. Different characters for people, animals and crops thousand of logograph for every thing even for Sun and moon.people knew these logograph with meanings .
1.Mesopotamian started this writing before more then 2900 years ago. 
2.China characters 3200 years ago. 
3. Crete 4000 years ago. 
4. Egypt 5000 years ago. 
5. Sumer 5000 years ago. 
And came into told that Egyptian stole this idea from mesopotamian.
Monogenesis.idea one civilization was king of all writings.the writing started from mesopotamia, they made shapes and cuneiform was the very popular story of these days .
1st time they invent consonants word was the combination of three or four consonants was very difficult to pronounce, and was written in Chinese language shape.

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by Nabeeha ilyas s/d/o Muhammad ilyas -
Thank you so much ma'am for sharing such an amazing and informative video with us.
 after watching this animated movie on history or History writing I came to the point where my mind started speaking and writing about the facts that how did they just invented writing or even speaking.
I mean of course our brains are strongly intelligent or useful than we think. but really still *how*!!
It's confusing!!!
 I would like to ask for the help from my other classmates about picto ideao and logo graphs.
 Besides that pictograph can be visualised Ideographs can be imagined and logo graphs can be directly and constantly red. but still how they can be visualised, imagined, and directly red.
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by Abdul sattar s/d/o Rafiullah khan -
Very helpful video A special Thanks to Ma'am,,,
I asked many teachers and friends about this topic but they didn't satisfy me regarding the origin of writing...This video has completely helped about this topic ,,my confusions have cleared now ... 💯 full of knowledge video...
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by Hikmat ullah s/d/o Sher Mohammad -
It's an amazing video to get better and enough information about writing helps in history . Thanks ma'am for regarding us through video to enable us to know about writing. We just write and don't know about its history . But now we know and have enough information about writing
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by syed kaleem ullah s/d/o syed niamat ullah -
it was mashAllah one of the longest video.
but it really was an informative video.
i disagree with one point of the video that in the start of the world nobody used to write.
for me its not true though in that age what the used to write that was not understandable but i think at least the tried.
because its human nature whether he know how to write or dont know how to write but they try to write kids are the example of this they even dont know what is writing but when they sit somewhere they start writing on streets or on walls.
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by Fiza Mengal s/d/o Jaffer khan Mengal -
Well it was an amazing video to make up our minds to learn something new everytime.Thanks ma'am for sharing with us it helps us to know wht the egyptians knew about writing. The egyptian king themus and the god of writing thoth wht they discussed about writing and all of that. It's interesting and fun.
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by Izzat Ullah s/d/o Aulia Khan -
Thank You mam For such inspiring and knowledgeable video it helps us how can he know the history and how history is important to be known. Mam you are very sincere with Us We All Are Very Thankful Of You I never Worked hard before but when in university you helped us in every hard movement then it keeps encouraging me And i started working hard Thank You Mam
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by Syed Maqbool Ahmed s/d/o Syed hazrat Ali -
Yes mam it was very nice vedio and very helpful to get knowledge about history of writing.it was a good and pretty much full of crucial information video which will help us in increasing our thinking capacity.
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by Amna Jabeen s/d/o Zaheer Ahmed -
1st of all I would like to thank you for all you did for us. We are leading different skills from you. You are very friendly teacher. The skills you are teaching us in this bad lockdown situation it's very appreciable. It's very helpful for us to gain knowledge. You are making a positive differences in our lives. Like now in my mind one line is coming which is written by Sidney Hook
"Everyone who remember his or her own education remembers teachers, not methods & techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system"
There are not enough words to thank you for all that yo do......
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by Mir Ahmed s/d/o Abdullah -

History repeats it self.

From the comments of honorable friends and articulative video
Reminded me the the basic knowledge of writing that how  started and when took it's path.
Everyone defined history and prehistory
That how writing begin
But in this informative video cleared my concept that how they were led writing and their vocal expression.
In last i want to say my all classmates
Look this video and know basic elements of writing.
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by Shahzaib Umar s/o Muhammad Umar -
Thank you so much Ma'am for imparting such informative lore through this memory enhancing clip of '' How writing had its emergence for the first time''. Here, to have our say on this advantageous video, we gotta learn what method was brought forward by a famous old god; the Egyptian moon god of wisdom and magic, usually depicted as an Ibis or baboon and the inventor of arithmetic,geometry,calculation etc. namely THOTH. Thoth brought forward his newly invented writing methods sorta Pictogram to better convey or transfer message from a generation to another.
Which, in the very beginning, the King Thomas disapproves of Thoth's cleverness because the King reckons that a human mind needs some different marks and symbols to keep the things remembered for keeps. The King thinks our minds' capability is higher than our perception.
As our ancestors visualized themselves or anything around them through drawing pictures, could not depict the whole.
PICTOGRAMS use a picture of an object while IDEOGRAMS use a symbol made of geometric shapes to represent an idea. Some examples of pictogram are as follows;
1) A picture of flame means fire.
2) A picture of knife and fork means restaurant.
Whoever, in his right senses can instantly understand the meaning of Pictogram.
IDEOGRAMS are more complex because they show abstract and intangible ideas.
LOGOGRAM is a symbol or character that represents a word or phrase.

As Ideograms are mentioned through( the use of a single phenomenon,characteristic etc. to identify the entire concept) can give any general sense to be more expressive, we use Ideograph.
When the writing had not emerged, there appeared complexity in every single activity. or a single icon was used to represent many; using one word for each symbol.
This video also imparts the detailed lore that there exists no clear evidence of the ancient Egyptians cheating from MESOPOTAMIA 5000 years ago. That is a fact that Cuneiform writing system was followed and copied by many.
From the later shown part of the movie, we can estimate how writing helps.
Oh my God! how the chinese used the symbols as in their written, was not less than a rebus puzzling game.
Slowly and gradually, with the passage of time, things over writing got improved, adopting several methods of writing using symbols,abjads,alphabets etc.