
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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The History of the Clay Tablet
The clay tablet helped stabilize economic systems, codify laws and pass down knowledge. Around the time of its eight hundredth birth day it began to also be home to poems and stories. Cine form on clay tablets was first produced in sumer again, in the southeast of iroc near the persian gulf.
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