ancient nations
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- description
- A collective term for various peoples of antiquity whose written records are often difficult to decipher due to their high-flown and pompous style.
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- stones, bricks, other durable materials
- writing_style
- high-flown, pompous
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- description
- The text indicates that ancient nations used materials like stones and bricks for writing, unlike modern paper.
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- out of the ground the stones, or the bricks, or whatever other material these nations wrote on
- did_not_havePaper
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- The ancient nations lacked paper as a writing medium, relying on other materials.
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- source_text
- for they had not paper as we have
- characterized_byhigh-flown, pompous writing
- description
- The writing style of ancient nations is described as overly elaborate and difficult to comprehend.
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- source_text
- These nations seem to have loved to speak of themselves in such a high-flown, pompous way that we can hardly understand at times what they wrote, even when turned into English
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- 2026-03-01T21:18:10.498Z
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