During the Holocaust, the Nazis viewed the Jews as a base species. 

An OBJECT pronoun does what in the sentence? 

The president of this tribunal is the highest legal functionary in Belgium.

Before signing up for the class, the students wanted to know ______ the class would be taught by. 

Mahatma Gandhi’s close English compatriot during the freedom movement was  Charles Freer Andrews.

If you earn 858 points in this course, your letter grade will be:

In dialogue writing, quotation marks indicate

The ending punctuation of the sentence must go ____________________ the quotation mark. 

Rewrite ONE sentence from the paragraph below and add “show not tell” details. Desiree received a phone call telling her that she had won a contest and had won a free trip to Disney World. At first she thought the call was from someone playing a joke on her, but finally they convinced her it was true. She was really excited and asked lots of questions to get all the details.

Beginning around 5500 BCE, people had begun to establish settlements in southern Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. It was here that the Sumerian civilization emerged.  Ancient Sumerian technology pioneered advancements in agriculture, engineering, and mathematics that shaped civilization. One important invention was the process for making an alloy of tin and copper into bronze, which marked the beginning of the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia.  In this period, bronze replaced stone as the material for tools and weapons and remained so for nearly three thousand years.  Cuneiform script emerged as a writing system in Sumer around 3000 BCE.  Cuneiform was a very complex writing system, and literacy remained the monopoly of a group of highly trained specialists called scribes.  Sumerians wrote their laws, religious tracts, and property transactions on clay tablets, which became very durable when baked. The clay tablets held records of commercial exchanges, including contracts and receipts as well as taxes and payrolls. Cuneiform also allowed rulers to record their laws and priests to preserve their rituals and sacred stories. In these ways, writing helped facilitate both economic growth and the formation of states.   The Sumerians were polytheistic, meaning they worshiiped many gods.  Each Sumerian city had its own patron god and residents built a huge temple complex for religious rituals called a ziggurat.  The temple complex also included the homes of the priests, workshops for artisans who made goods for the temple, and storage facilities for offerings.  Sumerians wanted to please their gods by placing them at the center of their society. The gods could be fickle, faithless, and easily angered.  If displeased with the people, the gods might bring famine or conquest. Making sure the gods were praised and honored was a way to maintain peace and prosperity.  QUESTIONS: 1. According to the reading, what were the key innovations of the Sumerians? 2.  What was the impact of the development of writing? 2. How were gods honored and served in the Sumerian religion? Your answer must be in your own words and supported by specific evidence from the reading.  Your answer must be a minimum of 75 words.