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    Achievements Survivor!!!

    Tribes:
    Writing
    1. What purposes
    does writing
    serve?

    2. Why is writing
    necessary and
    useful?
    Photo by Pascal Maramis
    The Sumerians
    were the first to
    develop

    Writing
    Pictograms

    Earliest writing
    form
    Words
    represented by
    symbols.
    Cuneiform (Latin: Wedge-Shaped)

    Photo by tortipede
    MORE on cuneiform from the British Museum.
    Sumerian Clay Tablet
    Scribes
    Professional Writers
    –high social status
    –rigorous education
    Employed in temples
    and palaces, recording:

    Scribes • financial transactions


    • legal documents
    • Literature (for practice)
    Sumerian Numbers

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