Mesopotamia

Question 1

Developed

Answer 1

4th millennium BC

Question 2

Cuneiform script proof

Answer 2

Pictorial signs.

Uruk - clay tablets inscribed with pictorial signs dating back to 3200-3000 BC

Question 3

Why?

Answer 3

Administrative and utilitarian function, Uruk tablets mainly served to record administrative activities BUT 15% served as lexical lists of symbols, probably used as references for scribes

Question 4

Expansion of writing

Answer 4

Legal documents for distribution of goods, commodities, animals and persons, used as a receipt as well as business records

Question 5

Exchange of good

Answer 5

Manage economic interactions between cities and the sustaining areas, also between Mesopotamia and other contemporaneous societies enabling complex transactions

Question 6

Shift in writing

Answer 6

2500 BC - Fara and Abu Salabikh tablets show “literary” nature including magical incantations, hymns to temples, myths and “wisdom” literature.
Also becomes widespread - correspondences, public compositions (royal inscriptions) and detailed records of court proceedings