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 The most prominent early city‑state was Sumer, circa 3,100 B.C., and it was the Sumerians who get the credit for first developing writing. (Slide 1560)  At first they used pictograms, but over time they developed bits of short, wedge‑shaped lines that became their cuneiform writing style.