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What is the estimated age of early human markings found in Africa?
What is the estimated age of early human markings found in Africa?
What was used to make the color black in prehistoric times?
What was used to make the color black in prehistoric times?
Which location is known for the cave painting dating back to c. 15,000–10,000 BCE?
Which location is known for the cave painting dating back to c. 15,000–10,000 BCE?
What is the significance of the Fremont rock painting from San Raphael Swell?
What is the significance of the Fremont rock painting from San Raphael Swell?
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What dominated life in the Mesopotamian city-state?
What dominated life in the Mesopotamian city-state?
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What type of temple compound dominated the Mesopotamian city?
What type of temple compound dominated the Mesopotamian city?
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What was the logical material for record keeping in Sumer?
What was the logical material for record keeping in Sumer?
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How did the early Sumerian pictographic tablet structure information?
How did the early Sumerian pictographic tablet structure information?
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What innovation altered the nature of writing, evolving pictographs into an abstract sign writing called cuneiform?
What innovation altered the nature of writing, evolving pictographs into an abstract sign writing called cuneiform?
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What did the drilled hole denote in the archaic tablet fragment from the late fourth millennium BCE?
What did the drilled hole denote in the archaic tablet fragment from the late fourth millennium BCE?
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How did scribes increase writing speed around 2500 BCE?
How did scribes increase writing speed around 2500 BCE?
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What did the Sumerian symbols for 'star,' 'head,' and 'water' evolve into by 2500 BCE?
What did the Sumerian symbols for 'star,' 'head,' and 'water' evolve into by 2500 BCE?
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What made writing easier and the pictographs less literal around 2800 BCE?
What made writing easier and the pictographs less literal around 2800 BCE?
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What did the temple chiefs consciously seek a system for recording?
What did the temple chiefs consciously seek a system for recording?
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What did early Sumerian tablets apparently list commodities by?
What did early Sumerian tablets apparently list commodities by?
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'Cuneiform' writing evolved from which early type of script?
'Cuneiform' writing evolved from which early type of script?
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