CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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for texting
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to write stories
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for fun
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to keep records
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Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest uses of writing in ancient Sumeria were to document agricultural produce and create contracts, but soon writing became used for purposes of finances, religion, government, and law.
Detailed explanation-2: -The earliest known writing was invented there around 3400 B.C. in an area called Sumer near the Persian Gulf. The development of a Sumerian script was influenced by local materials: clay for tablets and reeds for styluses (writing tools).
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Invention of Writing Although today we connect the word “writing” with “literature, ‘’ early writing was used to record tax payments, debts, and property ownership, not to write poems and stories. Writing also wasn’t invented to record spoken language.