Cuneiform was developed so that information could be ____________.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

True or False- According to the material, even though the signs changed over, nobody can explain why these changes took place.

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

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

Importantly, over time the signs could be used in two ways; to represent the item or a __________.

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

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

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)___________

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.

The barley sign was used for over _______thousand years.

Barley was only one of many ________ that changed over 3,000 years. A few other common signs included head, bird, ox, tree, and palm.