Chrysalids chapter 18
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- How did writing develop in Mesopotamia mom?
- Well, lets go to the museum, and we can learn together.
- For example, traders and merchants had to record what they bought and sold. Priests needed to keep track of the offerings made and governments needed a way to record the taxes they collected.
- So how did writing develop in Mesopotamia?
- Yes. Lets start here. Writing developed in Mesopotamia because of religion, trade, and government.
- Are you our guide today?
- Pictographs soon became more sophisticated, combining them to represent actions.
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- These are pictographs.Sumerians used them as early as 3300 BCE. They are simple pictures representing objects.
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- Written symbols began to stand for different sounds. These sounds were combined to make words, making there own alphabet.
- Wow, this is really interesting.
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- Pictographs then developed into cuneiform. Cuneiform is when a stylus was pressed into a substance like clay.
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- Scribes used a tool called a stylus, to write in the soft clay. The clay was 10 cm by 15cm. Writers had to work quick and carefully while the clay was still wet.
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- We have to go home now, thank you for teaching us!
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