Change Over Time

           By: Dana

• The Early writing changed from time.
• It first looked like a picture (like fish would be)
• Now it looks more like symbols.

Modern Alphabet

• Groups in mid East borrowed Egyptian symbols to make their own alphabet

• First the Phoenician adopted the alphabet, then the Greek and the Romans. The Romans changed some letters and it looks like the alphabet we use today.

How They Learned

• The Sumerians learned by going to Scribe School. But not everyone learned. Only the ones picked by the gods learned. These people were called scribes. The ones chosen began to study at age 8 and ended at age 20.

   

Making a Written Language

By: Sam

• Making a written language isn’t easy
• The first time they made a language it was 2000 leters long.
• It kept  getting shorter until it became 26 letters.

Trade Routes To Sumer

By: Rahul

• People from Sumer Needed many necessary items.
• The people who lived in the mountains needed wheat, barley, exactly what the Sumerians needed.
• The people from the mountains came down the Tigris or Euphrates River in a guffa or a riverboat to trade their goods.
• A guffa is a round, circular, small boat.
• If you wanted to trade your goods, you would put your put your goods in the guffa, sit in it and follow the water currents downstream.
• Once you got down, you would take apart the guffa and walk back upstream.
• My picture shows a man from Ashur traveling down a river in a guffa.