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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel with the author, Moody Al-Rashid, also a professor at Oxford

University teaching Acadian, Sumerian, and Mesopotamian history. And we're going now to

Mesopotamian history. If you're a school child in this period of time, you have lessons. You must learn to

write, especially if you're going to grow up and be a scribe, which will make your mother very

happy, male and female. However, how did they learn and why do we know about it? Moody, we found their

scrap paper. What does it look like? There are these amazing,

you know, amazing homework assignments that survive from about 4,000 years ago, from the city of

Nipur, a residential building that archaeologists have very charitimately named House

F, where about 2,000 of these

tablets have been found, if I'm hope I'm remembering that number correctly. And some of them

are just a single wedge. So the quinae form is a wedge-shaped writing system because it's

impressed into clay with a reed stylus, and you can sort of picture the little triangles.

And their very earliest attempts at this are these lovely messy tablets with just one wedge after another, like a

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