Developement of ancient systems of writing in Iraq and Egypt

Ancient systems of writing in the Middle East arose when
people needed a method for remembering important information. In
both Ancient Iraq and Ancient Egypt each of the stages of writing,
from pictograms to ideograms to phonetograms, evolved as a response
to the need to express more complex ideas. Satisfaction of this
need gave us the two most famous forms of ancient writing,
cuneiform from ancient Iraq, and hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt.
Both of these forms of writing evolved and their use spread to
other peoples even after the originators of the scripts had passed
on.
Some of the…