Read the following passage from lincoln's "gettysburg address."
now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
what does lincoln point about about the civil war and its effects on the nation?

anyone in k12 the correct answer is the nation was founded upon very specific ideals

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.