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The earliest form of sharing information was to tell each other without writing anything down at all.
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Sumerians were the first people to create a style of writing. They called it cuneiform and it included lines and shapes
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Not long after cuneiform, the Egyptians created hieroglyphs. They were a combination of pictures and symbols
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These were the first people to associate sounds with letters
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The Greeks were the first people to add vowels to the alphabet
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The Romans took over every library collection of those people that they conquered.
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Monks grew bored and began to draw on the outside of their writings, and created calligraphy.
