WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -A scribe, or writer, would be hired to keep track of the items people traded. Government officials and temples hired scribes to keep their records. Becoming a scribe was a way to move up in social class.

Detailed explanation-2: -graduates of schools became professional writers-called scribes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Early clay models depicting objects were the first Mesopotamian accounting records. These gave way to clay tablets like this one from Uruk with the earliest writing: simplified drawings and number signs. Writing began with pictographs (picture words) drawn into clay with a pointed tool.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scholars generally agree that the earliest form of writing appeared almost 5, 500 years ago in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Early pictorial signs were gradually substituted by a complex system of characters representing the sounds of Sumerian (the language of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia) and other languages.