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SUMERIAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Sumerians wrote on
A
clay tablets
B
paper
C
papyrus
D
walls
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ancient Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hittites wrote on tablets made from water-cleaned clay. Although these writing bricks varied in shape and dimension, a common form was a thin quadrilateral tile about five inches long.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Sumerians wrote on clay tablets using wedge-shaped reed styluses, and their writing system was called Cuneiform, meaning ‘’wedge-shaped. ‘’ In its earliest iterations, Cuneiform was made up of symbols called glyphs that were representations of images; they were not based on sounds initially.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

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