... they needed to start keeping public records of everything, so they used clay tablets to write. The Sumerians did not simply just come up with an easy-to-use writing system. At first, they drew pictures of objects. Then, writing evolved from these pictures, becoming symbols. The Sumerian alphabet had more than 2,000 symbols. Soon, writers started to use more abstract symbols, cutting their ... alphabet down by almost 1,700 symbols. (Speiser) The development of cuneiform started soon after. Cuneiform was the form of writing the Sumerians used for most ... developed a form of astronomy th...

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... back in the beginnings of civilizations. The Mesopotamian civilization would not have been created if the Sumerians had not introduced the first alphabet. The region that the Sumerians lived in would not have been so prosperous if the Sumerians did not introduce the art of writing ... 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 ... becoming ...

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