CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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All of the following are ways Sumerians used writing except
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The text was written in Akkadian cuneiform, the written language of the conquerors of the Sumerians, which was undeciphered until the mid-1800s. An Assyrian scribe holding a stylus and clay tablet records objects taken from a defeated city.
Detailed explanation-2: -Writing system From about 2900 BC, the cuneiform symbols were developed using a wedge-shaped stylus to impress the shapes into wet clay. This cuneiform ("wedge-shaped") mode of writing co-existed with the pre-cuneiform archaic mode.
Detailed explanation-3: -The symbols of which cuneiform consisted were originally created to represent syllables in the ancient Sumerian language.
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