Evolution Of Cuneiforms

When the civilizations were first invented, there was a lot of chaos and confusion. This led to the invention of the different forms of writing. Each civilization had a form of writing for

civilization. They started the Olympic games. Greeks come up with the idea of an alphabet

The Greeks where the first to use an alphabet. It came around the time the dark ages ended and was mad of 24 letters. Most of are letters like a, b, e and o came from the Greek’s.

This system vastly simplified reading and writing and then spread among other people as a sensible means of communication and record keeping. The Phoenicians then modified this simpler technique for their own language, and then spread it throughout the Mediterranean. The Greeks then modified this new alphabet for their own language. Later, the Romans grounded their alphabet on Greek. The Romans’ alphabet is actually the script that we use to write English in today’s world.

It is known not for sure if Sumerian writing was the first to be developed, but it is the oldest. First, scribed by pictures then later by wedges and straight on clay tablets. This form

A. Cuneiform is the worlds first writing system. B. I thing writing is a huge advantage because you can easily communicate between cities or towns. C. I would write a epic about the pope because he seems like a cool person and fun person.

Whenever the phrase Western Civilization is used, I keep thinking that the term is possibly a misnomer. Considering that most if not all of western civilization sits on the pillars of thought that arose from the East. Hammurabi's code of laws could be considered the founding of western civilization. I would argue that every aspect of western civilization is based or at least influenced based on the laws of the land. These ideas did not stop in ancient Babylon. They spread to the Greek islands and mainland, and from there the Romans took from the Greeks. From the Romans, the Christian Kings took their ideas and spun them into their own version. The Christian Kings then gave way to the Renaissance, and from the Renaissance to the Age of Exploration

Has anyone ever take the time out of the day to ever think what the earliest form of writing is? The first form of writing dates back to 3300 BCE and was called Sumerian cuneiform. This early form of writing was invented in Middle East in a place called southern Mesopotamia which is now modern day Iraq. Sumerian cuneiform mainly consisted of symbols and images on clay tablets to communicate with others. Originally the Clay tablets with the Sumerian cuneiform symbols were used to represent the items they were trading in the market. Eventually the clay tablet was made into small tokens with symbols to replace the bigger clay tablets. Sumerian cuneiform was soon adapted for the writing of the Akkadian, Elamite, Elamite, Hittite, Luwian, Hattic, Hurrian and Urartian languages. Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian and Hittite eventually wrote the first heroic story Gilgamesh.

The Sumerians developed the first known writing system. The Sumerians came from Mesopotamia. They came from the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia, called Sumer. The Sumerians and their culture prospered in Mesopotamia until about 1700 BC when it was taken over. The Sumerians are most known and credited for creating the first form of writing, cuneiform.

Sumerians also started writing, their writing was mostly on the clay tablets, the writing itself was called the Cuneiform. They built ziggurats; the pyramidal shaped temples to appease their Gods, as they felt that everything that

The Sumerians invented the earliest known form of writing (cuneiform) and introduced counting by sixties (Tullock & McEntire, 2012).

“Emojis are Unicode graphic symbols, used as a shorthand to express concepts and ideas”(Kralj). Emoticons are basically little pictures that are sent through different types of messaging systems to express emotion after or before the sender types what he/she is saying. On the other hand, hieroglyphics were drawings that were strictly one type of communication. “The ancient Egyptians expressed their ideas in writing by means of a large number of picture signs which are commonly called hieroglyphics”(Budge1). These pictures were drawn to express emotion, sound, and description, that told the comprehender what the writing was saying. Hieroglyphics and emoticons were both pictures that displayed a message, but hieroglyphics were more complicated than emoticons. Hieroglyphics were strictly pictures that represented writing, therefore they had to be really elaborate to create no confusion as to what the drawings were saying. However, emoticons are very simple symbols that display emotions and objects. They are simple because when a writer is using them it is either supported with words or what the writer is trying to convey is so simple that an emoticon can be enough to get the message across. “Emojis on smartphones, in chat, and email applications have become extremely popular worldwide.”(Kralj) As time progresses, it is possible that emoticons can become more elaborate, such as hieroglyphics were to become more independent in communication. By comparing hieroglyphics

The Sumerians create the world’s first written language, cuneiform script. They used this for business dealings, written records, and making trade easier. These written ideas were written on clay tablets, and baked in a kiln. This writing was a giant leap forward in the development of their civilization. Mesopotamia warrior, Hammurabi, created Hammurabi’s Code in 1754 B.C. This code was written on a huge, stone monument.

In what became Mesopotamia, the early logographic system of cuneiform script took many years to master. Thus only a limited number of individuals were hired as scribes to be trained in its reading and writing. Only royal offspring and sons of the rich and professionals such as scribes, physicians, and temple administrators, were schooled. Most boys were taught their father's trade or were apprenticed to learn a trade. Girls stayed at home with their mothers to learn housekeeping and cooking, and to look after the younger children. Later, when a syllabic script became more widespread, more of the Mesopotamian population became

The alphabet was invented in Mesopotamia. It replaced the cuneiform script and hieroglyphics. The Greeks added vowels to their alphabet