WORLD CIVILIZATION

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: -What these clay tablets allowed was for individuals to record who and what was significant. An example of these great stories was Epic of Gilgamesh. This story would tell of the great flood that destroyed Sumer. Remedies and recipes that would have been unknown were then possible because of the clay tablet.

Detailed explanation-3: -All you needed to write cuneiform was a reed and some clay Both of which were freely available in the rivers alongside the Mesopotamian cities where cuneiform was used (now Iraq and eastern Syria).

Detailed explanation-4: -Around 3300 BC the Sumerians began to use picture symbols marked into clay tablets to keep their records. Writing was inscribed on clay tablets. Scribes would take a stylus (a stick made from a reed) and press the lines and symbols into soft, moist clay.