... 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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