Writing - 120

A technology introduced in Vanilla
Required techs	Priesthood or Animal Husbandry or Pottery
Leads to	Code of Laws (with Currency or Priesthood) Feudalism (with Monarchy) Theology (with Monotheism) Mathematics Alphabet
Units enabled	None
Buildings enabled	Library
Era	Ancient
Notes
Allows the signing of open borders agreements

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read-Pliny the Elder

The development of writing is considered one of the most important advances of civilization. The earliest forms of writing were simple symbols and marks, used to keep accounts and inventories. Some cultures developed pictographic symbols to tell stories and record events. Eventually, complete systems of writing were developed, capable of conveying any thought that can be expressed orally. At this point, scribes replaced the oral historian as the chief keepers of records. Writing allowed the presentation of information in a form that could be reliably transmitted from person to person and made it possible for ideas, history, and knowledge to be stored permanently and passsed between cultures and more reliably than oral recitation.