7. Scribes were very important people They were trained to write cuneiform and record many of the languages spoken in Mesopotamia Without scribes, letters would not have been written or read, royal monuments would not have been carved with cuneiform, and stories would have been told and then forgotten Scribes wrote on different shaped objects depending on the type of information they wanted to record
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