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by good squarel on November 12th, 2009
Their family, tax, and service provided, perhaps many millions of people sumarized as a government lecture.
by judgebill on November 11th, 2009
The earliest forms of "writing" seem to be impressions on clay tablets and were probably in the nature of accounting records...that is, receipts or transactions, as has been suggested by others. Other writings were marks on animal hides but these were subject to decay without special efforts to preserve them. Some types of paper were made using papyrus and ink was common and some accounting-type records exist in this fashion. The first printing in the western world was the Gutenberg (sp?) bible in the 15the century and the Chinese had a form of printing before then. Early western writings are mostly religious in nature since it was primarily religious institutions that provided any kind of education.
by daredevil on November 11th, 2009
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by quack is whack on November 11th, 2009
I think the earliest records we have of writing were things like receipts.
Or did you mean narratives?
by Lady Alathia of Vulcan on November 11th, 2009
Most likely a record of a property transaction.
by Stranger in a Strange Land on November 12th, 2009
Law, religious texts and financial transactions are the first written records. +2
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