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Why are modern historians able to understand stories told by the ancient Sumerians?

AThe stories were carved onto oracle bones.
BThe stories were written down in cuneiform.
CThe stories were passed down orally through the ages.
DThe stories were recorded in hieroglyphics.

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B. The stories were written down in cuneiform.

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Option: B. The stories were written down in cuneiform.

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The historians were able to understand stories told by the ancient Sumerians because they developed the writing system called cuneiform. Cuneiform is for the first time developed by ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia modern-day Iraq and Kuwait. Pictographs were the first writing method used the ancient Sumerians, created with wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets with a small stick used as a stylus. Over time, alphabetic signs took [place of the pictographs.

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