The _____ developed their system of writing independently, without borrowing ideas from other civilizations.


Persians

Babylonians

Assyrians

Sumerians


What is a written code?


rules for bureaucrats

types of punishment

library of clay tablets

organized list of laws



_____ held positions of high respect in Mesopotamia because there were few people in the ancient world who could write.


Sumerians

Recorders

Scribes

Merchants


Which step came first in the writing process of the ancient world?


Scribes had a permanent written record.

Letters were marked in the clay with sharp tools.

Markings were saved as the clay dried.

Clay was shaped into smooth tablets.


Scribes in ancient Mesopotamia kept their notes and records on _____.


animal hides

clay

paper

stone