cuneiform mesopotamia
by sienna hogan
driving question
what Mesopotamian legacy has helped us the most?- its by helping us communicate and write and speak it helped us so we can talk to each other instead of pictures it helped us sound out words cuneiform was the first way Mesopotamians could write they first were just drawings and pictures and writing lines but then it turned into cuneiform.
legacy, what is it
its a type of writing called cuneiform that people in mesopotamia used a long long time ago to communicate it began with pictures and signs and now its letters and words.
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reaserch
the Sumerians from Mesopotamia were making their own writing it was made for taking account of what they bought sold it is called cuneiform which means wedge shaped.
reaserch
Scribes wrote in clay tablets using a pointed reed called a stylus the earliest cuneiform tablets known as proto-cuneiform were pictorial as the subjects they addressed were concrete and visible.
reaserch
the Sumerians thought very highly of the scribes because writing was considered magical when the Sumerians invented their writing called cuneiform this happened about 3000 13.c this began in Sumeras as a way of keeping business records.
how is it important to the mesopotamians
it was important because they used it for writing and communicating Mesopotamians made over 700 symbols to communicate with each other
how has it changed through time
we changed the letters into how we understand it, we changed the way it sounds, the way It looks, and made in to English and a bunch of other languages