Why was the issue of man's inhumanity to his fellow man so relevant when william golding first published lord of the flies? a. british imperialism provoked negative reactions worldwide. b. the horrors of world war ii were fresh in the minds of many people. c. a group of schoolboys, who treated each other cruelly, were discovered on a deserted island. d. golding insisted that unpleasant issues be addressed in literature.

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.