Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system).[1] It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in
ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting
information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records,
and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of
trade and administration in Mesopotamia outgrew human memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form.[2] In both Ancient Egypt and Mesoamerica
writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity
for recording historical and environmental events. The oldest known use
of writing in China was in divination in the royal court.
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