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The sumerians invented the wheel used in two ways,(wheel to move wagons and pottery wheel) and the plow. Cuneiform is important because it was the first known writing.
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1) They invented cuneiform. They also invented the wheel and the plow.
2) It was important because you could view records of people and wars. It was also the first known form of writing.
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1) Styles
2) It was important because cuneiform was needed for recording like keep track of goods, trading. Also for Diary. Also by cuneiform, specialised job called scribe formed and they are professional of writing cuneiform. They were working for government recording. They were at high social classes.
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They invented a stylus. Cuneiform was important because they can devolop language by writing on clay Tablets.
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1) one tool / technology the Sumerians invented was the wheel.
2) Cuneiform was important because it helped the Sumerians communicate.
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It is the first known recorded language. They bit into a clay tablet and compared the mark to a twelve years old one. I helped to communicate.
Perrine and Soo Youn
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They invented wheel, irrigation,and laws. Writings are important because they can’t keep track of things and when you don’t keep track of them, I think the city wont get that big.
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1) What new tools did the Sumerians invent?
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Stylus, for cuneiform
Canals, for irrigation
Plow, for farming
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The sumerians invented two important tools the wheel and the plow. The plow was important because it was good for farming and could be pushed or pulled. The wheel was important because it gave transportation.The first wheel was probably a potter’s wheel.
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1) They invented Stylus.
2)They could record events.
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There was 5 basic form of writing. They used the stylus which was cut by 90 degrees. It is hard to understand for us because it is photograph.
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They used stylus to write. It was to complicated to learn the writing it took more than 1 years to learn. Mesopotamia writing had more than 600 symbols.
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Stylus
It’s language! Writing!
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The main tools he talked about was a Stylus and the ‘leather-hard’ stage of clay. Did they invent clay, too?
It language! Can you imagine living without language for several decades?
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1) What new tools did the Sumerians invent?
They invented the tablet and the stylus to write the written languages.
2) Why was the invention of cuneiform (writing) an important development?
To record their words, it was important.
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1:the sumerians invented the wheel and the plow.
2:The written language was important because they needed to keep track on things people brought in.
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Very good and very interesting facts!!!
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1)Styluses(used to write cuneiform) and wheels(used to transport persons/things).
2)Cuneiform allowed Mesopotamians to record buisness deals for evidence of purchases made.Later it was used to write stories,like the Epic of Gilgamesh
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1) What new tools did the Sumerians invent?
They invented the wheel, plow, cuneiform, stylus, shaduf (A sort of lever).
2) Why was the invention of cuneiform (writing) an important development?
Because the invention of writing made it so that they can record history and other things.
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New tools the Sumerians invented was stylus and tablet.
The invention of cuneiform was important development because to record their written language.
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1 – Wheel, and Stylus.
2 – I think to communicate. 🙂
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New tools that sumerian create was tablet.
Why was the invention of cuneiform an important development because they need to record.
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The Sumerians invent the stylus, a tool to write on the clay tablet. Writing was very important because Sumerians could write and do note-taking or writing down their surplus. Anyway, writing is so much important for now and before.
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The new tool that was created by sumerians was the stylus. It helped them keep track of items, objects, etc. By: Vinay and Rishi
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1. The Sumerians invented bronze which was a mixture of copper and tin. They made tools out of bronze because it was stronger and lasted longer than copper. They also invented the plow which helped with their farming. Eventually, animals pulled the plows. They also invented the wheel which helped a lot with transportation
2. The invention of cuneiform was important because it helped with their record keeping. Also it was one of the earliest forms of writing. Today we use writing a lot.
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1.Tablets- it made of clay
2.it is important that there is a writing invented and help the students to learn and to record
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The Sumerians invented tools like plows and axes.The invention of cuneiform writing was important because now we know all that happened in their civilization and it is a big clue for discovering what happened in the past!
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