WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sumerians invented this writing system, which involves the use of a wedge-shaped reed stylus to make impressions in clay. Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III includes school tablets, accounting records, and commemorative inscriptions.

Detailed explanation-2: -Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay tablets were used for over 3, 000 years. Scribes used a reed stylus to impress characters in moist clay. The tablets were usually dried in the sun or sometimes fired in kilns.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most writing from ancient Mesopotamia is on clay tablets. Damp clay was formed into a flat tablet. The writer used a stylus made from a stick or reed to impress the symbols in the clay, then left the tablet in the air to harden. This tablet is marked with symbols showing quantities of barley rations for workers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scribes wrote on tablets made from readily available clay. The people of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians and Akkadians, used the plentiful mud from the banks of the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates as their writing material, just as the Egyptians used the papyrus which grew so profusely along the banks of the River Nile.

Detailed explanation-5: -Cuneiform is one of the earliest known forms of writing beginning about 3000 B.C. The Sumerians created cuneiform by imprinting pictures onto a clay tablet using a stylus, forming wedge-shaped symbols. The word cuneiform comes from the Latin word cuneus, which means “wedge".