But on the way home, he drops it and some of the shell pieces break.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

Based on the dialect in the passage what can you infer about the character huckleberry finn

4. how does the speaker's comparison of sinners to aninsect (paragraph 7) contribute to the central idea of thetext? o a it emphasizes the negative view god has ofsinners and how inconsequential they are to him. o b it stresses the connection that exists between allof god's creatures, whether they be human orinsect. o c it suggests that sinners can change for the better, as insects are known to go throughtransformations. o d it portrays sinners as being just as prevalentaround the earth as the wide variety of insects.