... to communicate with each other as well as people outside of their civilization. Writing. The people decided 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 ... cuneiform started soon after. Cuneiform was the form of writing the Sumerians used for most of the time period they existed. Cuneiform was written by wedge-shaped styluses on clay tablets. Writing spread through the civilizat...

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