Let's sort out the jumble:
<span>Advances in algebra and chemistry = Persia
Dividing a circle into 360 degrees = Assyria
Sexagesimal numbering system = Babylonia
Iron chariots = Hittite
First written language = Sumer
By the way, if the term "sexagesimal" isn't in your everyday vocabulary, that refers to a system based around the number 60. The Babylonians had specific, different symbols for each numeral up to 59.</span>
I think the answer is residence or where one lives. Some people can afford to either buy a house
or have one made on a lot. Others rent
apartments. It is more advantageous to
own a house because it eliminates paying rent.
It made settlement and transportation faster.
The answer is that they were the expression of the consumerist culture of the period.
In the 1920s Ford dominated the automobile industry with its consumerist policies and thinking. Movies were also seen as products at the time by the studios that held the power in the movie business. That is why both of them were the reflections of the consumerist culture of the 1920s.