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Why Is Cuneiform Important

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Cuneiform was one of the first systems of writing, developed in ancient Mesopotamia by the Sumerians. Early on it provided a way for transactions to be recorded, particularly those involving the temple, though as it developed it expanded to record a wider range of ideas including codes of law and religious stories. Cuneiform also spread about the region of Mesopotamia, seeing use from a variety of different peoples over a very long period of time. Not only does Cuneiform hold the important role of being one of the earliest written languages, the slabs to which the writings were transcribed to have given historians valuable insight to the events happening in the region while the system was in use. The Persian invasions of Greece were the
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