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Question
Why were the vast majority of people in ancient China illiterate?
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Solution
A Chinese script is a form of picture writing. There were about 40,000 word-pictures. Thus making the script complex and difficult. The Chinese could not understand them. So the vast majority of people in ancient China were illiterate.
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