Writing and Power

I myself found it very interesting and true that the civilizations that incorporated writing into their systems were pretty much civilized and would be remembered.  Today if you look back on history you see all of these civilizations and how they started to use writing more and more.  We still study these cultures and people today because it is kind of a mystery how they themselves started to use writings.  For example the Mesopotamians, Chinese, and Egyptians were all early civilizations that we can look back on and study because in early times they were smart enough to developed a writing system and leave behind details about how they lived and worked through things.  The packet also talked about how people and gods came to be, from the creation of people and the world.  People have so many beliefs of how the world and people came to be because every culture has different people who believe different things.  Some believe that there is only one divine god who started everything, while others believe that there is/was several.  They believe that we were made to protect and serve the planet earth, while other believe that the god/gods created us to serve and worship them.  From reading all of the different stories it is very hard to believe any of them because they all provide good points, but it is hard to tell who is telling the truth. we just have to just keep on reading on, or maybe just decide for ourself.