Writing was invented in a bout 3300 B.C. in Mesopotamia, most likely in Uruk. This time was thought to be a time of large transformations in politics, the economy, and representational art. Writing tablets found in this area weren't alone: there was an abundant amount of them. Early writing was used to record/store economic information. This tablet most likely was used to document grain being distributed by a large temple.
Human need, interest and curiosity drove these humans to invent writing because they needed to record things in their economy, such as sales and purchases. They had no way of doing that, until writing came along. After it was invented, people were interested and curious about how writing worked, so they learned how to do it, and recorded many, many things.
This tablet connects our world to civilizations of the past because the Mesopotamians first invented writing, and look at how much writing we use every day! If they had not invented writing, they wouldn't have grown as a civilization, and neither would we. We migh not have even been where we are today if writing was never invented.
