The solution to terrorism is first informing people of how serious terrorism is. Because if you are aware then you can act. The solution terrorism is very complicated because everyone would have to just agree to disagree and leave it at that. That would be very hard for the more dominate countries such as the United States. It would be hard for the United States because they have to be in everyone else’s business. The more dominate countries feel that their way of running a country is better than others and feel the need to apply their philosophies on others. However informing people about terrorism would be the best start to get a solution because it would take a number of people to find a solution. There would probably have to be a meeting with all the leaders of the different countries, to come together and settle their differences. This probably would not work because that would be a great time for one country to take out the rest with one bomb. So maybe video conferences would be the best way and the safest. They would need to talk about their problems and what would it take to settle their differences and stop attacking each other. This would then make life easier for the citizens of the countries because they would not have to worry about being attack by another country. This probably is a very unrealistic solution, but if it were to happen I think it would be very effective. One of the world’s most prominent innovations was the alphabet. The alphabet, created a new world for the people of civilizations such as Mesopotamia and Egypt. Its creation removed the usage of people known as scribes who memorized everything that happened in the civilization to using writing which everyone was able to learn. The alphabet was so diverse that it could be transfigured into the dialects of other cultures, making writing very prominent throughout history which eventually led up to today. Its creation opened the door to education for not only kings, queens, and pharaohs, but to anyone living in the society of its usage. In addition the development of the alphabet opened the doors for many other subjects still known to man today, logic or philosophy and skepticism. The alphabet helped to democratize civilization because writing freezes thought. People were able to take their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings and write them down. Writing came about around the fourth millennium B.C. The first writing system is believed to be the Sumerian script. The formation of the alphabet put history into the common people’s hands. It also allowed knowledge to flow more readily for everyone. It was the force that broke new boundaries for peoples everywhere. Now archaeologist can read the past in its own handwriting, which is just fascinating. The first alphabets emerged around 2000 B.C. in Ancient Egypt, but by then alphabetic principles were instilled into Egyptian hieroglyphs for a millennium. The cuneiform script is one of the first known forms of written expression. Cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. The pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract. Cuneiforms were written on clay tablets and symbols were drawn with a blunt reed called a stylus. The impressions left by the stylus were wedge shaped, thus giving rise to the name cuneiform, wedge-writing. Writing became a means of recording and when you record something you make history. The alphabet was easier than remembering thousands of characters. Because it was easier to learn the alphabet literacy became more common. More people were able to learn to read and write which really helped to boost history. This directly impacted archeology. Through writing archeologist are about to understand the ideas and cultures of former civilizations. Civilizations were defined by their alphabets and the way they chose to record things, for example, the Egyptian hieroglyphics or the Hebrew alphabet. Archeology had a major impact in the bible scholar world. Archeologist dig in huge mounds full of history called tells. They contain years and years of artifacts from the different cultures. When each group of people was at their peaks or was conquered by another group of people their civilizations were collapsed and the next was built on top. Archeologist study tells and the way the artifacts are positioned throughout each one. This gives them an idea of when each culture existed and who conquered them. he emergence of the Enlightenment was dependent upon the availability of information. In the old days (a loose term), knowledge was treasured and considered a liberty of the nobility or rulers. Likewise, such things as rituals of a religious sort and communication with gods were reserved for the powerful few. Even the oral history of nations was precariously kept and balanced by the limited means of memory. What changed everything and gave the world a whole new method of communication and access to education was the alphabet. On the macro scale level, it enabled history to exist and future generations a way into the world of the past. We now have discovered countless past generation’s remnants and are the better for it. Before it all began, communication was of course predominately if not all orally done. Once the alphabet came along, everything was changed. No more were there thousands of characters to memorize in order to be literate. No more were the elite the only ones with access to knowledge. Civilization was forever changed! The alphabet democratized civilizations by Greek innovations from that time have had a powerful influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization. Archeology helps Bible scholars because archaeology has done a great deal to cause many scholars to take the Bible much more seriously. Such findings are hoped for, not only by Bible students, but by disinterested archaeologists as well, because they know that they must take Bible records seriously. In terms of archaeology and bible scholars, the excavation of biblical historic places helps evaluate the bible and to define the time periods of long ago. With the help of archaeology, bible scholars are able to find the answers to many bible mysteries and recreate interesting artifacts that are later displayed in museums, allowing the world to learn more on the most complex reading of today, the Bible.

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