Instead of writing in vertical columns the scribes changed their method to horizontal rows. ... The cuneiform system of writing contained more than 700 different signs and was an abstract picture language. ... In further development scribes were able to take cuneiform script and apply phonetic sounds to certain symbols in order to render human speech into written word. ... In this instance the scribes used a picture of an arrow to write both words. ... For 2,500 years after the Third Millennium B.C. the cuneiform system characterized and shaped the ancient Mesopotamian culture and it wasn&...

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The writing styles I'm going to discuss are Egyptian Hieroglyphics, Sumerian Cuneiform, Harappan Pictograms, and Chinese Script. ... The Egyptian writing system was like the Sumerian Cuneiform because scribes wrote them both on slates and tablets. Also, the scribes went to a special school and so did the Sumerian scribes. ... The Sumerian cuneiform was written on clay tablets. ... It was like the Egyptian hieroglyphics because it used scribes and sent them to school. ...

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The Sumerians developed a system of writing known as cuneiform. In cuneiform, a pointed stick called the stylus was used to form wedge shaped impressions on clay tablets. ... They attended school from five to seventeen years old and when their education was completed, they became scribes. ...

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The writing the Courta Ricans used was cuneiform. ... The controlled the entire civilization.The second class was scribes, merchants, and priest who were as important. ... The writing that the Courta Ricans used was like cuneiform. ... The few who did were important priest and scribes. ...

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The Epic was written in Sumerian cuneiform, the oldest written language and dates back to 3200 BCE. ... During the 20th century with further discovery of cuneiform tablets, the complexity of the process of recovery of the Gilgamesh epic became more apparent. ... George (2009) anticipates that the next translation will be one based on digital images of the cuneiform tablets. ... These tablets, from the 2nd millennia, which contribute to the "Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic", are believed to have been a copy book through which scribes learnt to write, as they had to write this as a...

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When civilization was just beginning to emerge and the newly found art of writing was about to emerge there was a great king by the name of Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk. While under his control the city knew nothing but triumph and tyranny. He was the most powerful ruler of his time....

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Like the Egyptians, the Sumerians used the art of "cuneiform" to write. ... This form of writing, cuneiform was very hard to learn because there were so many different symbols and sounds for everything. ... Writing possibly brought on some problems as well because it was so hard to learn this form of writing that only priests, scribes, and some merchants had the time to master this great art. ...

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In Mesopotamia, they had job specialization such as farmers, merchants, scribes, metallurgist, craftsmen, and political leaders. ... The Mesopotamians had a full writing system called cuneiform with 2000 symbols. ... They used the Mesopotamians cuneiform and first numbering system. ...

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Sumer, also known as Shumer and Shinar, was an ancient civilization that existed until about 1940 BCE. It was located in the southern region of the fertile crescent (Mesopotamia, or modern day Iraq), an area that was bordered by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Sumerian written history goes back to...

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Sumerians developed cuneiform markings by pressing figures into mud or clay tablets and from here created ideograms and groupings of letters in syllables. Once the syllabary code had become established, "Sumerian scribes set to work recording economic transactions, astronomical charts, religious poems and prayers, medical regimens local decrees, arithmetical calculations in addition to word lists (groups of related nouns),-four-legged animals" (Backman,14-5). ...

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VOCABULARY Apadana: an audience hall in a Persian palace Capital: the top element of a column Cuneiform: a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape Cylinder seal: a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image Facade: the front of a building Ground plan: the map of a floor of a building Hierarchy of scale: a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art Lamassu: a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art Negative space: empty space around ...

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