Question

What did cuneiform symbols represent? Explain how cuneiform writing differed among the various empires that used this form of written communication.

Answer 1

Cuneiorm is the Egyptian source of writing. It different from other forms of communication because it uses picture writing, unlike most others.

Answer 2

Answer:

Cuneiform is one of the earliest known types of writing. It was founded around 3000 in Mesopotamia. This system used some 2,000 symbols that represented different words (animals, geographical accidents, etc), which, when transformed into a writing system, reduced the possible characters to about 700 during the Uruk culture.

The Sumerian writing system was later used to write several languages, including Akkad, Elamite, Hittite, and Hurritic, and had a major influence on the development of ancient Persian writing.

This type of writing is the longest-used writing system: with protosumer imaging, it was commonplace for more than four thousand years. Through the Ugaritic alphabet, it is considered to be the ancestor of both the Greek and Latin alphabets, although the ancestor of European fonts is often seen in the Canaanite alphabet, which can be traced back to Egyptian hieroglyphic writing.