Introduction of the topic Writing and City Life
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The first Mesopotamian tablets, written around 3200 BCE, contained picture-like signs and numbers. Writing began when society needed to keep records of transactions – because in city life transactions occurred at different times, and involved many people and a variety of goods. Mesopotamians wrote on tablets of clay.
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By 2600 BCE,the letters became cuneiform, and
the language was Sumerian. Writing was now
used not only for keeping records,but also for
making dictionaries, giving legal validity to land
transfers,narrating the deeds of kings, and announcing
the changes a king had made in the customary laws of
the land.
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