3. They did a good job, in my opinion. The reason for this is that at the time, very few civilizations (if any at all) had a large road network that kept the civilization well connected and allowed for "fast" information transport. This was not the case in the Assyrian empire, where local governors were required to maintain roads and road stations at strategic points, allowing for faster communication as a result of improved infrastructure.
4. The Assyrian and Babylonian empires were two kingdoms that coexisted. Their cultures were exactly the same. Everything is the same: language, laws, religion... This culture was either descended from Sumerian and Akkadian societies or entirely created by the Assyrian-Babylonians.
<span>The play isn't split into episodes or acts originally and I've only read the original Greek. Anyway, she killed herself because she could bear the burden of what she had done. She had slept with her own son, who also murdered her husband/his father. Also, she had given birth to Oedipus' children. So she then realized her children were the product of incest. She killed herself because she loved both her son and husband dearly and could not bear to face the fact that the prophecy turned out to be true. :)</span>
Farmer rented land from landowners in return for a share of the crops
An effect of the discovery of the New World in the late fifteenth century was a global exchange of plant life as different plants were transported to America where they thriwed, but different plants were also transported back to Europe and thriwed there as well.
