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O

ftenly, religous leaders used

writing to write rules of their

religion

I

n the beginning of time, the Sumerians

developed the first known writing form,

which is called cuneiform

F

ood supplies were kept

track on clay tablets also

N

one of the countries write in

cuneiform now

W

rote on clay

tablets

V

ery often, the scribes would

keep records of taxes

R

eeds were the

writing utensils

E

arlier in ancient times, scribes

were the recorders of their history

I

N

ever in Mesopotamia has a scribe not

been trained at a school

n ancient years, scribes were

usually the ones who learned how to write. Sometimes, very few others learned how to read and write

T

he Phoenicians developed the

first formal alphabet

T

he first efforts of writing

were pictures

I

n the year of 2400 BC, cuneiform

writing was invented

I

O

n top of being the first ancient

writitng, it was also the most

highly used ancient

writing after egyptian writing

in ancient times, all taxes were wrote on clay tablets, and they were stored in warehouses inside city walls

N

ot only was there cunieform

writing and numbers, there

was also symbols

N

umbers were also included in cuneiform writing

G

rain was brought to the

warehouses, and they made

records of the amount that

was brought

Writing

By Megan Hanlin

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