1. Watch the video. choose the correct word that goes in the blank space.
pictograms         pictures         History of writing
      ideas
   space             time           temples          Sumer          stylus
The video is about
Writing is one of mankind’s most enduring technologies.
This ability to transmit thoughts over generation, to give instructions, to express
ourselves, to communicate                 over the giulf of           and
These                 play a huge part in why writing began.
              was the land of the world’s first real cities.
Now you´ve got real writing system! The original                   , and even
the                    they became, vanished entirely into wedge-shaped
impressions and line strokes made by the                   favored at the time.
2. Choose true or false as appropriate
  1. Writing is one of mankind's least durable technologies.
  2. Writing began in ancient Sumer.
  3. Scribes looking for quicker and easier ways to note common good.
  4. The clay tablet was not used as a registry
  5. Temples play a huge part in why writing began.
3. Match
                                   Clay table
                              Ancient Sumerian
                                       Writing
                                       temples