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THE ORIGIN OF WRITING: MESOPOTAMIA

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1 THE ORIGIN OF WRITING: MESOPOTAMIA

2 THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY: THE FIRST URBAN CIVILATIONS
THE ORIGIN OF WRITING

3 DEVELOPMENT OF WRITING IN MESOPOTAMIA: CUNEIFORM WRITING
PICTOGRAMS are drawings which represent objects. These pictograms were simplified using triangles (cunei) drawn with a STYLUS WEDGE (CUNEI) STYLUS CLAY TABLET

4 FROM DRAWINGS TO CUNEIFORM
POINTED STYLUS THEY PUT THE PICTOGRAM ON ITS SIDE WEDGED STYLUS CUNEIFORM WRITING

5 CUNEIFORM COW WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS?

6 EVOLUTION OF WRITING IN MESOPOTAMIA

7 Later, each pictogram represented SOUNDS, forming the ALPHABET that allowed Mesopotamians form WORDS: An (God Anum) An – GU (Heaven)

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