Chapter 2: One Gets Civilized (Ancient Sumer)
1. Around 4000 BC, the people of Sumer did not live in caves or make scratches on bones. They
represented the number one as a
2. The creation of tokens allowed for the invention of
breakthrough in human
achievement.
, which was a huge
3. What makes the Walpiri (an Indigenous tribe in Central Australia) different than most other human
societies?
4. How do the Walpiri count? For example, how does the old man count his grandchildren!
5. Why did the people of Sumer need to invent mathematics?
6. How did numbers become the first form of writing?
7. Instead of using pouches and tokens, what did the Sumerians start to write on!