Broadly speaking, Mercantilism was very good for European countries for a while but terrible for their colonies.
Mercantilism made people in the Old World VERY rich.
But, as a result of the imbalance, the relationship between the European countries and their colonies deteriorated making mercantilism good in the short term but bad in the long term.
No they were not they failed.
D. Cuneiform
The Sumerians developed cuneiform, which was a system of writing in which writing was inscribed on clay tablets with a stylus. This is one of the earliest known systems of writing.
training in military tactics and weapon
