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The Romans used a wooden...

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The Romans used a wooden...

The Romans used a wooden tablet covered in a thick layer of wax, which they then wrote in using a stylus (latin word) which had a pointy end for writing, and a flattened end for smoothing the wax for reuse. I think they gave them to the kids at school.

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