CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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5000 B.C.E.
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7 C.E.
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2800 B.C.E.
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1700 C.E.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500 BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest writing we know of dates back to around 3000 B.C.E. and was probably invented by the Sumerians, living in major cities with centralized economies in what is now southern Iraq.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sumerian is the oldest language that we can read that has come to us from antiquity, with clay tablets surviving from as far back as roughly 3200 BCE. As a spoken language, it likely died out around the middle of the second millennium, but continued to be used as a literary language for at least another 900 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -The cuneiform script, created in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, ca. 3200 BC, was first. It is also the only writing system which can be traced to its earliest prehistoric origin. This antecedent of the cuneiform script was a system of counting and recording goods with clay tokens.