The Evolution of Writing: Cuneiform's Impact on History The development of writing was to facilitate long distance communication and trade and was the beginning of documented history. The alphabetic script of cuneiform was used all throughout Mesopotamia by different cultures but in their own languages such as the Assyrians the Elamites the Akkadians and the Babylonians Great works of literature which survived to us such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and Enhudana's Hymns to Inanna were composed in th