Pick a quote (or two) that is meaningful to you and respond: a) do you agree with the quote? b) relate a brief story from your life that exemplifies its truth or falseness. lastly, a bit of introspection. on a scale of 1-10, how youthful are you? how mature? explain.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.