Laconic means
a. using few words.
b. talkative.
c. chattering meaninglessly.
d. noisy, loud.

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.

Ihave no idea what the explanation is.

Would the essay be more or less effective in explaining the concept of dead reckoning if you knew from the beginning that ahmed is an ant?