... styles from these early civilizations are the same and how they are different. The writing styles I'm going to discuss are Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform, Harappan Pictograms, and Chinese Script. I will also inform you on why they were important. I will start by discussing Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The ... connected with the object. The Egyptian writing system was like the Sumerian Cuneiform because scribes wrote them both on slates and tablets. Also, the scribes went to a special school and so did the Sumerian scribes. The Egyptian writing system was like all the other writing...

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... extremely well potters and artists. The public works of this civilization was advance for their point in time. The writing the Courta Ricans used was cuneiform. Courta Rica was considered to be a well developed civilization. Location has a lot to do with if a civilization will last or not. Courta ... classes also were greatly involved with the civilization. The highest class was filled with Kennedys. The controlled the entire civilization.The second class was scribes, merchants, and priest who were as important. The majority of the people were all found in the lowest class. The lowest c...

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... like building irrigation systems. Even though the priest was important, the people of Ancient Mesopotamia known as the Sumerians were very accomplished. The Sumerians developed a system of writing known as cuneiform. In cuneiform, a pointed stick called the stylus was used to form wedge shaped impressions on clay tablets. These wedge shaped impressions represented syllables that formed words when joined together. By using ... long distances. Since writing was developed, boys were able to go to school. They attended school from five to seventeen years old and when their education was com...

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... do it. The deeds of kings, political records, and property lines were the first major things that needed to be recorded. Like the Egyptians, the Sumerians used the art of "cuneiform" to write. The writing was evolved from pictures, which were baked on clay tablets. These pictures were eventually turned into symbols and transformed into phonetic elements. This form of writing ... , cuneiform was very hard to learn because there were so many different symbols and sounds for everything. Writing eventually was like the turning point in societies during the early Mesopotamian civilizations. ...

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