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Cuneiform
Cuneiform script, an ancient wedge-shaped script of Mesopotamia and Persia, is one of the earliest pictographic forms of written expression that emerged in Sumer around the 30th century BC. In the Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire, Cuneiform writing was replaced by alphabetic writing and was extinct by the beginning of the Common Era.
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What improvements in transporation did the sumerians make over time?
They very probably invented the wheel, first for pottery and later for use on transport vehicles. They also are the oldest recorded users of boats for transport of goods.
Why cuneiform writing was developed?
Cuneiform writing was developed in ancient Mesopotamia to keep records of transactions, taxes, laws, and other important information. It allowed for the documentation and organization of society's activities, facilitating economic, administrative, and cultural advancements in the region.
How did the Sumerian write cuneiform?
Sumerians wrote cuneiform by using a stylus made of reed or bone to make wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets. The cuneiform script consisted of a combination of pictograms and wedges that represented sounds. It was written in rows from left to right or sometimes in columns.
Why was the invention of cuneiform an important invention?
Cuneiform was an important invention as it is considered one of the earliest forms of written language. It started as a pictographic writing system, which means it was based on small pictorial representations versus abstract symbols like we use today. Overtime, cuneiform pictographs evolved and simplified into abstract characters before being replaced by alternative forms of written language. Still, cuneiform was used for two millennia and impacted how ancient civilizations did business and conducted trade.
In a dangerous situation, people's brains often go into a more basic mode than usual: essentially, more acting and less thinking occurs. To reflect this shift, an authors can write in three different styles: first, he or she can use a stream of consciousness mode, for that would follow the entirety of the character's thoughts and actions in the order and duration that they occur. Second, the author could write less eloquently to signal this shift from thinking to acting. This would involve using small words and shorter sentences, because the character simply would not have the time nor put in the effort to make the language flow. Third, he or she could speed the style of writing up in an effort to communicate the adreneline rush the character would assumedly experience in a dangerous situation aad the fast pace at which the mind and body would be traveling.
Is it true or false that the Egyptians developed a system of picture writing called Cuneiform?
It is very true!
How do you spell Gilgamesh's name in cuneiform?
Gilgamesh
There are quite a wide range of cuneiform spellings actually. The spelling found in first-millennium texts, which essentially retains a very archaic logographic spelling, is GIŠ-gim-maš.
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What happened before cuneiform?
The oldest cultures before 3500 B.C. had limited population and they copied animals giving calls using sounds. There were roughly 50 hunting groups in Mehrgarh Gedrosia Indus Valley Kot Digi culture in South Asia 7000 B.C. culture. In oldest stone age culture of Samma Soan Valley in South Asia 0.5 million years old , we were using sounds of drum 200 year ago for communication. Simlar system existed in ancient cultures before evolution of pictorials
Who was the first civilization in Mesopotamia who invented the wheel plow and cuneiform writing?
The Sumerians, about 3000 BC.
What civilizations used the cuneiform?
The civilization that used cuneiform was Egyptians. this was diffrent from hieroglyphics because cuneiform was used to write books, poems, and just to give to our archaeologists today what important things they had back then.
No,cuneiform was used by the ancient mesopotamian people.
Over thousands of years, Mesopotamian wrinting recorded daily events, trade, astronomy, and literature on clay tablets. Cuneiform was used by people throughout the ancient times to write several different languages.
Was Hammurabi's code written in cuneiform?
yes. his code was based on an eye for and eye or a tooth for a tooth. that means what ever you do will be done back to you. Here are a few of the laws.
15: If any one take a male or female slave of the court, or a male or female slave of a freed man, outside the city gates [to escape], he shall be put to death.
16: If any one receive into his house a runaway male or female slave of the court, or of a freedman, and does not bring it out at the public proclamation of the [police], the master of the house shall be put to death.
109: If conspirators meet in the house of a [woman wine-seller], and these conspirators are not captured and delivered to the court, the [wine-seller] shall be put to death.
110: If a "sister of a god"[nun] open a tavern, or enter a tavern to drink, then shall this woman be burned to death.
196: If a [noble-]man put out the eye of another [noble-]man, his eye shall be put out. (5)
197: If he break another [noble-]man's bone, his bone shall be broken.
200: If a man knock out the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out.
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