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Complex
Institutions
Specialized Record
Workers Keeping
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Complex
Institutions
Specialized Record
Workers Keeping
Originally it has
2,000 symbols but
was reduced to 500
over time.
CUNEIFORM WRITING
In Sumer, only
small group of
professional scribes
could master the
cuneiform after 15
years of training
The mastery of
cuneiform was a
secret held by only a
few specially-trained
individuals.
• The Sumerians were
polytheistic which means they
believed in more than one god.