The first mass communication-lecture

Journalism was not born into this world, but it was brought into focus around 5,500 years ago.  It all started in Mesopotamia where stamp seals became the first written/non-verbal communication.  This stamp was used in many ways such as kings verifying laws, merchants counting cargo and the verification of paying taxes.  This helped people begin to keep records of the things that happened.  Now about 3,500-3,600 years later in 0-99 B.C the Romans came up with a way to crank out documents faster then by hand.  They invented the screw press which revolutionized the efficiency of trading and just general life.  Now about 200-300 years after the screw press the chinese/ the egyptians built their own efficient press made of wood blocks.  These blocks had all the words on them to spell out the documents they wanted to write, and all they needed to do was put them in ink and stamp them.  The only issue was that wood roots, breaks and will not last.  So in about the 10th century the chinese came up with another press that moved far faster than their previous one.  This one had movable letters, which made it easier to change the words and type what ever they wanted.  Though it was still wood, which became a problem because the more they printed the faster it broke.  So finally in about 1450 B.C Gutenberg came up with the metal printing press, which still had the same key movable letters feature.  Though it was made of metal which lasted quite a while longer then the wood presses did.  Gutenberg's invention had many impacts including increase in literacy rates, the Protestant reformation, the spreading of news, The Renaissance and finally The Enlightening period. This revolutionized journalism and it all started from stamp seals about 5,500 years ago.