Cuneiform

People living in __________ Mesopotamia developed one of the earliest writing systems in the world.

• Western

• Northern

• Southern

• Eastern

Cuneiform was developed so that information could be ____________.

• sold

• recorded

• shared

• bought

This writing system began with pictures or signs drawn on ________tablets.

• papyrus

• clay

• stone

• basalt

Around 3100 B.C. people began to record amounts of different crops such as ____________, which was one of the most important crops in Southern Mesopotamia.

• wheat

• barley

• corn

• cotton

_________drew the sign on soft clay tablets using a pointed tool, probably made out of a _________.

• Priests, chisel

• scribes, reed

• priests, pencil

• scribes, chisel

True or False- For hundreds of years the signs drawn on clay hardly changed.

• True

• False

When farmers brought their _________ to the temple a record was kept, when some was given out this was also recorded.

• stones

• wheat

• hops

• barley

One of the most common ____________ sizes was called a 'gur'. One 'gur' is about the same capacity as about 300 liters.

• wholesale

• container

• vase

• trade

The barley sign changed _________ when the scribes used a writing tool with a squared-off end instead of a point.

• shape

• depth

• meaning

What we call cuneiform started when scribes started using ___________ shapes to press into clay.

• triangle

• square

• circular

• wedge