Read this sentence from line 39 of the speech. "We face, therefore, a moral crisis as a country and as a people." Which connotation of "crisis" did President Kennedy most likely want listeners to associate with the
term? *

A) danger
B) instability
C) crossroads
D) difficulty

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.