Answer:
What accounted for the shift was the same thing that accounted for the shift in other parts of the world: the development of agriculture.
Explanation:
When a society develops agriculture, it shifts from being nomadic to being sedentary. This is because of two main, intertwined reasons:
The first is that growing crops is a burdensome activity that demands a lot of time, and care: ploughing the land, planting the seeds, tending the crops, caring for them, and picking them in time of harvest. This makes growing crops clash with a nomadic lifestyle.
The second reason is that agriculture is a more efficient way to produce food than hunting or gathering. Agriculture does produce a steady supply of food when the crops do not fail, while gathering and hunting hardly produces what is necessary for survival. This is an incentive for early societies to develop agriculture.
Answer:
Mesopotamia's rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) are key to their civilization. Because of the rivers Sumerians (Mesopotamia's people) could trade and travel through them. Grain, oils and textiles were taken from Babylonia to foreign cities and exchanged for timber, wine, precious metals and stones. In addition, merchants from other countries travelled to Babylonia to exchange their goods.
Explanation:
<span>The correct answer should be B.. He created one of the world's first empires. He was one of the first rulers in the world and many Mesopotamian rulers later looked up to him and thought that he was the greatest ruler in history. Although there might be claims by some Sumerian scholars that other leaders were the first, Sargon is still officially recognized as the first.</span>
Answer:
Explanation: Its estimated between 100,000 - 150,000 lives were lost.
Answer:
The right choice is:
B. equal voting rights for women
Explanation:
The act granted the right to vote to all males of any race, color or previous condition of servitude. There was not female vote in the USA by then. Another provisions are: freedom of religion was preserved but polygamy and plural mariage were forbidden; manufacture and sale of liquor were prohibited; public schools were established with English instruction.
