The First Printing Stamp- Akkad

The first printing stamp was invented in Akkad. This invention answers the unit question: "How does human need, interest, and curiosity drive human invention," because the people of Akkad needed a way to produce more than one copy of a tablet more quickly. Although not a lot of the people in Ancient Mesopotamia read, more than one copy of a tablet would be needed for the amount of people that could read. The multiple copies of tablets could spread information throughout their city-state. The people needed a way for information to be spread more quickly and efficiently.
The first printing stamp from Akkad relates to our world today. We do not use stamps to transport information, but we do use things so that people all around the world can obtain the information we have. To do this, we use the internet, books, magazines and newspapers. We are the same as the ancient civilization, as we all want to gain knowledge and share what we know. They used stamps to do this, we use other forms to do this, but the result is the same. We gain knowledge. We are connected to Akkad because we gain knowledge through the internet, newspaper, etc. while they used stamps to learn.

The photo above is the stamp used to make multiply tablets of information.