My Mesopotamia Notes

· The people of Southern Mesopotamia developed one of the earliest writing systems in the world.
· They recorded drawings and signs on clay tablets.
· They used tools called styluses.
· They made the styluses out of reed.
· Reed is a plant the scribes used which grew in or near water.
· The Mesopotamians had gods for everything.
· They praised these gods in ziggurats.
· Ziggurats were mud-brick temples made in Mesopotamia to praise gods
· People began recording amounts of different crops during the time of 3100 B.C
· They had a sign for barley, head, bird, ox, tree, and palm.
· The sign of barley usually had a number next to it telling how much barley was being given to the temple or taken away.
· They changed the shape of the barley when the scribes used a tool with a squared off end. To make the barley sign, you have to write it in several wedges
· It tells us that Urra-ilum was also given barley.