Answer: Maps,you had to buy maps to find your way to places.We needed a more portable way to find a location.
Messaging,you had to send letters to people,and you would never know when they would be received.We had the need to talk to people from different places.
Beowulf battles Grendel's mother in a battle hall under a lake. He first swims through this lake in order to arrive to this icy battle hall. There is ice everywhere, and it is very cold. This is the poem's representation of hell - in some mythologies, hell is represented as a freezing place, as opposed to fiery doom.
Economics is the study of scarcity. Scarcity exists because the society has unlimited needs and wants but the resources to satisfy these are unfortunately, not unlimited. That is why there is a certain cost to scarce things. The scarcer the thing is, the more its costs. Aside from scarcity, factors like production cost and capital affect the cost of a thing, commonly referred to as a good.
In a nutshell, Uriel is a fictional planet in Madeleine L'Engle's sci-fi/fantasy book A Wrinkle in Time… 'the third planet of the star Malak in the spiral nebula Messier 101,' to quote the book exactly. It is a beautiful and peaceful planet, inhabited by beautiful and peaceful creatures.
On the way to rescue Dr. Murry, Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin make a pit stop on Uriel. The purpose for this pit stop, according to Mrs. Whatsit, is 'more or less to catch our breaths. And to give you (the children) a chance to know what you're up against.'
To fully understand this planet and its role in the story, a little background knowledge is important.
