SSC
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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paper made of linen was stretched over wet clay
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sharpened reeds made wedge shaped marks on paper made from papyrus
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symbols that looked like animals were drawn on clay tablets
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harpened reeds made wedge-shaped marks on wet clay
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped, ‘’ because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cuneiform was first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia around 3, 500 B.C. The first cuneiform writings were pictographs created by making wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets with blunt reeds used as a stylus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). Once written upon, many tablets were dried in the sun or air, remaining fragile. Later, these unfired clay tablets could be soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets.
Detailed explanation-4: -The writing system takes the name cuneiform from the shape of the strokes that form the symbols (from Latin cuneus, “wedge”).