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What is the significance of sumerian cuneiform writing?

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It was one of the first written scripts, and it influenced writing in Mesopotamia for two millennia

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Over time, the need for writing changed and the signs developed into a script we call cuneiform. Over thousands of years, Mesopotamian scribes recorded daily events, trade, astronomy, and literature on clay tablets. Cuneiform was used by people throughout the ancient Near East to write several different languages.
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