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  1. One of the reasons that literacy created vast 
  2. military organization in the ancient world was that 
  3. it became possible to control men at a distance by 
  4. means of written messages and couriers and so on. 
  5. The alphabet created individualism, it created 
  6. armies, empires, huge organizations.