Writing: Writing is one of the key factors that helped bring all of Mesopotamia together. In the text, it states that, "At first they used picture symbols to represent items such as cattle, grain, or fish" (Steele 12). But before the cuneiform was even created, it was not writers or geographers who created these ancient words, but it was accountants. In the book, it says, "By around 3300 BCE, the citizens of Uruk were using about 700 different symbols, or pictographs." (steele 12)
