Big Ideas · 1 · Abraham and Sarah
Writing built empires
Writing made it easier to manage workers, command armies, run economies, petition gods, and glorify rulers. It let civilizations govern larger populations.
The pen powered conquest, then survival.
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When those empires conquered two remote kingdoms in the first millennium BCE, they paved the way for a new use of writing: holding a defeated people together.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 22–23
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