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Many years ago at around 3500 B.C. Mesopotamians invented two things that would change the world forever. These inventions still influence our world today. Ancient Mesopotamia helped the world and still does, but if there wasn’t a written language everything would be a disaster, but two inventions helped the world and it was a written language and Hammurabi’s Code.
How would you communicate with letters? Well, the Mesopotamians paved the way with the invention of cuneiform. Cuneiform was developed over 5000 years ago (Doc. 1). It was the first written language ever recorded (Doc. 1). The Sumerians would use a metal tool, called a stylus, to write on clay tablets (OI). They used cuneiform to keep records, document business dealings, and pass

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