In oral cultures, the information and the history of any event weresubject to change, depending on who was telling the story; thus,the personality or popularity of the story-teller could affect howthe events were understood. When writing came along, it providedone official way to tell a story, with an agreed-upon set of facts;whether in a scripture or a legal document, the event was preservedand available to be studied at any time.
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Writing also provided something that could be passed on to the nextgeneration in a form that was stable, making it possible for futuregenerations to know exactly what their ancestors thought. Incultures like Mesopotamia, writing helped to bind the culturetogether in one shared way of telling the story. People who hadmastered literacy could read it for themselves, or for those whocould not, it could be read to them by public readers.
