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William J. Bernstein
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet ***
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet ***
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Writing was born thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. Spreading to Sumer, and then Egypt, this revolutionary tool allowed rulers to extend their control far and wide, giving rise to the world’s first empires. When Phoenician traders took their alphabet to Greece, literacy’s first boom led to the birth of drama and democracy. In Rome, it helped spell the downfall of the Republic
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