The very first civilization, the Mesopotamian, used to write on rocks using a stylus, their writing was Cuneiform. The Egyptians used hieroglyphics which was the set of pictures instead of words. The civilizations kept track of important things. The scribes kept records of marriages, deaths, medical records. It was able to keep people organized. To have all the records it would give them a better understanding of what is going on which made it important. Only scribes understood Cuneiform because they were very educated people who knew how to write. Then came along a new way of writing. Scribes in ancient Egypt started using hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs were very important because it kept records and, people were able to communicate with each