CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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on wood blocks
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on cave walls
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on clay tablets
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on stones
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first written language in Mesopotamia is called Sumerian. Most of the early tablets come from the site of Uruk, in southern Mesopotamia, and it may have been here that this form of writing was invented. These texts were drawn on damp clay tablets using a pointed tool.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cuneiform was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system.
Detailed explanation-3: -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".
Detailed explanation-4: -First developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets.