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Jiang treats cuneiform's clay-tablet durability as a reason Mesopotamia is more legible to historians than places whose writing materials decayed.
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Clay Tablets
Jiang treats cuneiform's clay-tablet durability as a reason Mesopotamia is more legible to historians than places whose writing materials decayed.
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"But one thing that you learn in this class is that when humans come together for religious purposes, they're capable of doing amazing stuff...."
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"They just took clay from the riverbeds, okay? And then before it hardens, you just take a reed, and you write down some marks..."
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"And that's why they wrote stuff down, for propaganda purposes. Now what's interesting is that, there's different writing systems around the world. So in..."
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"...you look at Sumerian culture, Mesopotamian culture, they use cuneiform on clay tablets, which keeps forever. Okay? But if they had a writing system..."
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