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In North America, a Catholic missionary noticed Micmac children writing glyphs in birch bark as a mnemonic device. He turned these glyphs into a full-fledged writing system, which lasted into the 19th Century.

Now, say some Catholic missionaries come along and so the same for the Aztecs, Mayans, and Mixtecs... They manage to maintain the features of these systems that facilitate writing in their respective languages, and improve upon them to make them simpler to write and more effective to use. How would this affect the later history of New Spain and its successor states?
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