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When did people start writing?

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Fictional stories were usually told orally (by speech), but I recon people started writing for status and intelligence, because ages ago, only certain people were able to read and write - people who had spent their entire lives understanding writing.

Perhaps they wrote to honour others - like the Rosetta stone, or warn others of danger, or even to entertain others with a story, like Beowulf, which was written down so it could be remembered.

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Pictorial writing developed in Egypt (hieroglyphics - ca 3200 BC ), Sumer (cuneiform - ca 34th century BC), and the Indus River valley (ca 33rd century BC) almost simultaneously. If any earlier people wrote, none of it has survived.

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