CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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The world’s first system of writing.
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cuneiform
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pictographs
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Cuneiform is one of the oldest forms of writing known. It means “wedge-shaped, ‘’ because people wrote it using a reed stylus cut to make a wedge-shaped mark on a clay tablet. Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -That writing system, invented by the Sumerians, emerged in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE.
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