Cuneiform

Please click the 3 correct things that Cuneiform was used to record.

• myths

• trade

• weather observations

• protest pamphlets

• personal letters

Cuneiform was developed so that information could be ____________.

• sold

• recorded

• shared

• bought

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

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 most _________ tablets have signs drawn in boxes. Later, the signs were written in rows, arranged in the order in which they were read.

• modern

• ancient

• important

• valuable

Cuneiform signs were first written and read in ____________. Later, they were written and read in rows.

• columns

• rows

• squares

• paragraphs

True or False- The Cuneiform script was used to write in only one language.

• True

• False

Please click the 3 correct languages in Mesopotamia Cuneiform was used to write in both Sumerian and Akkadian. It was also used to write in 1)___________ 2)___________ 3)___________

• English

• Greek

• Elamite

• Hittite

• Urartian

True or False- Cuneiform script was used by other peoples because they needed to be able to record information but they did not have their own systems for writing down their languages.

• True

• False