Cuneiform
What are the materials needed to use or write in cuneiform?
Clay tablets and stylus's (sharpened reed).
What is a pictograph?
A pictograph is a written symbol to symbolize words/ideas.
Define a scribes role in the cuneiform writing system.
A scribe writes down all the information needed to documented onto a clay tablet using a stylus.
What is cuneiform?
Cuneiform is the first writing system developed the Sumerians. Cuneiform writing means wedge shaped.
Where was cuneiform used?
In the ancient middle east.
When was cuneiform developed?
8 millennium.
Legal documents, economic transactions and religious texts.
What records were tracked using cuneiform?
Financial, military, and trading records.
What was the French root meaning of the word cuneiform?
Cuneiform means “wedge-shaped.”