Venn Diagram Of Cuneiform Research Paper

1. Cuneiform- Cuneiform is Sumerian Writing that is a style of pictogram. It was written using a reed stylus and made wedge shaped impressions on clay tablets. They were then baked or dried in the sun to make them hard and virtually indestructible. Cuneiform evolved over time into something more advanced as civilizations kept rising and falling in Mesopotamia. Some examples of things Cuneiform was used for are tallies of cattle or other live stock by herders, lists of taxes and wages payments, contracts, and court decision dealings. Since writing was so important to Sumerian life, schools for scribes started to appear which taught primarily men from wealthy families how to master the language of Cuneiform. Cuneiform was deciphered by Sir Henry
Pictogram- Pictogram can be defined as symbols with a sound and represent tangible objects. ☼ This sun represents what a pictogram probably looked like. The Sumerian writing of cuneiform is a pictogram language.
3. Phonogram- Phonogram is a phonetic alphabet and represents sounds and syllables. An advanced form of Phonogram is our own alphabet where when we see symbols like “A” we know it sounds like “Ah”.
4. Proliterate- Proliterate stands for first writing, much like how a prototype is the first try of a product. When talking about Proliterate writing, we really need to talk about what purpose writing had in the first place so that it had to be created. With agriculture came the need to record how much food is in the stockpile and when it was given out as wages for jobs, records of payment. In this, we find the reason for writing. To help record important things or actions.
5. Totem- Totems are monuments that symbolize a specific deity or spirit animal. They have an inscription of the chosen deity or spirit animal, and had a ceremony done to link the statue to their god or deity to harness their power for the city.
6. Animism- Animism is when the identity of a deity or spirit animal is that of an animal or