The oldest known system of writing is called cuneiform.
It was usually written on clay tablets with wedge-shaped sticks. It was invented in southern Mesopotamia about 3300 BC.
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Only one-third of the American colonists supported the move for independence; John Adams estimated that another third were loyal to the British government, and the final third neutral or apathetic; so that the founding of "majority government" was not supported by a majority.