Mesopotamia PPT- Cuneiform
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Cuneiform was the writing system used in Mesopotamia, where pictographs carved into clay tablets with a stylus evolved into simplified wedge-shaped symbols. It was used to record daily events, trade, astronomy, and literature. Over time, as the script was adopted by other peoples like the Hittites and Persians, it became used to write other Indo-European languages as well. Eventually, the script in Ugarit was replaced by an early alphabet with one symbol per sound.
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Mesopotamia PPT- Cuneiform
- 1. T I N Writing in G Y I Mesopotamia
- 2. Cuneiform meaning “wedged shapes”, is the Sumerian writing system. Cuneiform was used to record and communicate different types of information, they recorded daily events, trade, astronomy and literature. Before cuneiform, the writings on these tablets were simple pictures, or pictograms, which represent an object or an idea. But because clay is a difficult material to draw lines and curves on, the pictures eventually became fairly standardized linear drawings that made recording for the Mesopotamians a lot simpler. They came to have Mesopotamian Cuneiform wedged shaped appearance because they were stylus pressed into soft clay tablets with the slanted edge of a stylus.
- 3. The Ending Of Cuneiform This trend increased as the script was modified and distributed to even more places around Mesopotamia. When the Hittites and Old Persians got hold of it, the script was being used for Indo-European languages as well. Finally, someone in Ugarit got fed up with the whole thing, so he/she decided to invent an "alphabet" of sorts ,with one symbol per sound. (This revolution in writing wasn't discovered in Sumerian times.)