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What Effect Did The Invention Of Writing Have In The Ancient World?

Kings Were Able To Control Their Subjects
Priest Built Huge Temples Called Ziggurats
Hunter-gatherers Settled Down To Farm
Information And Culture Spread To New Places

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One major effect of the invention of writing was that "Information and Culture spread to new places," since information could now be spread more efficiently than simply through word of mouth. 
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