Read the excerpt below and answer the question. "what, are you crossing of yourself? well, use that trick no more i would advise you." (scene 7, lines 72-73). why does faustus tell the pope to stop crossing himself? faustus is frightened of religious symbols. the pope looks foolish crossing himself. the sign of the cross has no effect on faustus. faustus is offended by religious symbols.

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were a 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.