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[[Image:Cuneiform.jpg|thumb|300px|A cuneiform tablet]] The Cuneiform is the earliest form of writing.  Cuneiforms were made by pressing a sharpened reed into a soft clay tablet to make wedge shaped letters.  Cuneiform comes from the Latin word ''cuneus'', meaning wedge. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 56.</ref>

[[Image:Cuneiform.jpg|thumb|300px|A cuneiform tablet]] '''Cuneiform''' is the earliest form of [[writing]].  Cuneiforms were made by pressing a sharpened [[reed]] into a soft clay tablet to make wedge shaped letters.  Cuneiform comes from the [[Latin]] word ''cuneus'', meaning wedge. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 56.</ref>

== The Evolution of Cuneiform ==

== The Evolution of Cuneiform ==

Pictograms were first used by the [[Sumer]]ians around 3500 BC, a direct product of the [[fertile crescent]].  True wedge-shaped Cuneiform symbols were created around 3000 BC. Later the pictograms evolved into ideograms, and finally the modern Sumerian alphabet. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 55-56.</ref>

[[Pictogram]]s were first used by the [[Sumerian]]s around 3500 BC, a direct product of the [[fertile crescent]].  True wedge-shaped Cuneiform symbols were created around 3000 BC. Later the pictograms evolved into [[ideogram]]s, and finally the modern Sumerian [[alphabet]]. <ref>Spodek, Howard. ''The World's History''. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. 55-56.</ref>

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