I need help with this please help me!! The document: According to the British Museum, the earliest known writing dates back around 3000 BCE and was likely invented by the Sumerians, who were living in cities with centralized economies in what is now southern Iraq. Temple officials needed to keep records of the grain, sheep and cattle entering or leaving their stores and farms. Early versions of these records wore pictures, which are known as pictographs.

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The Earliest Form of Writing: These texts were drawn on damp clay tablets using a pointed tool. It seems the scribes realized it was quicker and easier to produce representations of such things as animals, rather than naturalistic impressions of them. They began to draw marks in the clay to make up signs, which were standardized so they couch be recognized by many people.

A wedge-shaped instrument (usually a cut rood) was used to pross the signs into soft clay. This gave the writing system its name, 'cuneiform', meaning wedge-shaped.

Cuneiform: From these beginnings, cuneiform signs were put together and developed to represent sounds, so they could be used to record spoken language. Once this was achieved, ideas and concepts could be expressed and communicated in writing Letters enclosed in clay envelopes, as well as works of literature, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh have been found, Historical accounts have also come to light, as have huge libraries such as that belonging to the Assyrian king. Ashurbanipal (568-827 BC).

The latest known example of cuneiform is an astronomical text from AD 75. During its 3,000-year history cuneiform was used to write around 15 different languages including Sumerian. Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Bamito, Hittite, Urartian and Old Persian. While cunoform was spreading throughout the Middle East, writing systems were also being developed in Egypt and China,