As the Egyptian language and society progressed, many changes were made, including shorthand versions of the script like hieratic and demotic. Even through most of these changes, there was a primary reason for the written word, which was
A) writing of the words of the gods.
B) record keeping.
C) judicial proceedings.
D) history of the pharaohs.
E) All of these
A
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a) draw up a new United Nations organization at San Francisco b) eliminate authoritarian governments from every place where they still survived c) establish four occupation zones in Germany d) recognize the Lublin government as the official government of Poland
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a. fear of American nuclear attack. b. economic inflation which was reducing the real wages of salaried workers. c. student demands for greater democracy. d. concern about the Communist Party's aging leadership. e. widespread corruption and nepotism among Communist Party leaders.