Young men enrolled in scribal schools to learn the essentials of the trade, which included not only reading and writing but also the basics of mathematics. By virtue of their writing skills, the scribes took on all the duties of a civil service: record keeping, tax accounting, the management of public works (building projects and the like), even the prosecution of war through overseeing military supplies and payrolls. 3000 bce) brought with it the formation of a special class of literate professionals, the scribes. The introduction of writing in Egypt in the predynastic period ( c.
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