Cuneiform

A system of writing developed by the Sumerians around 3,000 BC, using a wedge shaped stylus and clay tablets.

• Cuneiform

• Irrigation

• City-State

True or False: This picture shows a clay tablet of Early Cuneiform Writing

• True

• False, fully developed Cuneiform writing

True or False, This picture shows a clay tablet with Early Cuneiform writing

• True

• False, fully developed cuneiform writing

Using this example, how would you write the number 42 cuneiform?

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What Mesopotamian system of writing/Sumerian art form does the photograph show?

• cylinder seals

• stone stelae

• ivory netsuke

• cuneiform printing

What was the primary writing system developed by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia?

• Hieroglyphics

• Latin Script

• Cuneiform Writing

• Phoenician Alphabet

This was a writing system that was developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia around 3,500 B.C.

• ziggurat

• agriculture

• uniform

• cuneiform

A kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia is called

• handwriting

• cursive

• cuneiform

• graffiti

Which of the following writing systems is considered the earliest form of writing?

• Phoenician alphabet

• Hieroglyphics

• Cuneiform

• Latin alphabet

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DOK Level 1: Recall

The purpose of _________ writing system was to record laws, trade and history.