WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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: -The writing material was wet clay and, as a result of writing in wet clay with a stylus, you tend to shape your characters in the form of a wedge. So the writing, when it was first discovered in the 19th century, was called cuneiform from the Latin word cuneus, wedge-wedge-shaped writing.

Detailed explanation-3: -Writing evolved in Sumer first with the use of clay tokens, then they used pictographs, then they used cuneiform which is the wedge shaped writing which they made with a sharpened reed called a stylus.