HISTORY
THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT 3200 BC500 BC
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in the ancient Middle East, a system of writing that used wedge-shaped marks
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region of the Middle East in which civilizations first arose
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the most sacred text of the Hebrew Bible, includes the first five books
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chief minister who supervised the business of government in ancient Egypt
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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: -Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: cuneus) which form its signs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cuneiform is not a language but a proper way of writing distinct from the alphabet. It doesn’t have ‘letters’ – instead it uses between 600 and 1, 000 characters impressed on clay to spell words by dividing them up into syllables, like ‘ca-at’ for cat, or ‘mu-zi-um’ for museum.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cuneiform (cyu-nay-i-form) meaning “wedge-shaped, ‘’ is a writing system invented around 3000 BC by the Sumerian people in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq). It was used for thousands of years to communicate multiple languages.