Problem: The Holy Roman Empire was a multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806. The largest territory of the empire after 962 was the Kingdom of Germany, though it also came to include the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Burgundy, the Kingdom of Italy, and numerous other territories.

On 25 December 800, Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charlemagne as Emperor, reviving the title in Western Europe, more than three centuries after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The title continued in the Carolingian family until 888 and from 896 to 899, after which it was contested by the rulers of Italy in a series of civil wars until the death of the last Italian claimant, Berengar, in 924.

The title was revived in 962 when Otto I was crowned emperor, fashioning himself as the successor of Charlemagne and beginning a continuous existence of the empire for over eight centuries. Some historians refer to the coronation of Charlemagne as the origin of the empire, while others prefer the coronation of Otto I as its beginning. Scholars generally concur, however, in relating an evolution of the institutions and principles constituting the empire, describing a gradual assumption of the imperial title and role.
1. What organization is the story about?
2. What made up this Empire?
3. Who was the first leader?
4. What was his official title?
5. When did this happen?
6. What was the largest territory?
7. When did this happen?
8. When did the Empire dissolve?
9. Who made King Charlemagne Emperor?
10. What family kept the title for a long time?
11. Until when?
12. Who was the last person to claim the title?
13. When was this?
14. Where was he from?
15. Who later began using the title again?
16. When?
17. How long did the Empire last from there?
18. What was another territory that was included?
19. Can you name another?
20. Can you name another?
Answer: 1. The Holy Roman Empire
2. A multi-ethnic complex of territories in central Europe.
3. Charlemagne.
4. king Charlemagne
5. On 25 December 800
6. The Kingdom of Germany,
7. After 962.
8. 1806.
9. Pope Leo III.
10. The Carolingian family.
11. Until 888 and from 896 to 899
12. Berengar.
13. After 899 until his death in 924.
14. Italy.
15. Otto.
16. 962.
17. Over eight centuries.
18. Kingdom of Bohemia,
19. Kingdom of Burgundy,
20. Kingdom of Italy,

Problem: However, some scholars contest the idea of a Proto-Euphratean language or one substrate language. It has been suggested by them and others, that the Sumerian language was originally that of the hunter and fisher peoples, who lived in the marshland and the Eastern Arabia littoral region, and were part of the Arabian bifacial culture. Reliable historical records begin much later; there are none in Sumer of any kind that have been dated before Enmebaragesi (c. 26th century BC). Professor Juris Zarins believes the Sumerians were settled along the coast of Eastern Arabia, today's Persian Gulf region, before it flooded at the end of the Ice Age.

Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Neo-Sumerian Empire or Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance) approximately 2100-2000 BC, but the Akkadian language also remained in use. The Sumerian city of Eridu, on the coast of the Persian Gulf, is considered to have been the world's first city, where three separate cultures may have fused that of peasant Ubaidian farmers, living in mud-brick huts and practicing irrigation; that of mobile nomadic Semitic pastoralists living in black tents and following herds of sheep and goats; and that of fisher folk, living in reed huts in the marshlands, who may have been the ancestors of the Sumerians.
1. When did Native Sumerian rule come back for a time?
2. What was that era called?
3. Did it have another name?
4. What was it?
5. Was there another language being used then as well?
6. What was that called?
7. What is thought to be the first city on earth?
8. What people lived there?
9. Is that on the Mediterranean?
10. How many cultures are said to have come together there?
11. Which of those followed sheep and goats?
12. Did they live in green tee pees?
13. What did the fishing culture live in?
14. Did they live in the mountains?
15. What people were they related to?
16. Who used water for their livlihood?
17. Do all scholars agree that there was one substrate language?
18. Where do they suspect the Sumerian language originated from?
19. Are their good historical records of this time period?
20. What happened to this region at the end of the ice age?
Answer: 1. 2100-2000 BC,
2. Neo-Sumerian Empire
3. yes
4. Third Dynasty of Ur (Sumerian Renaissance)
5. yes
6. Akkadian
7. Eridu
8. Sumerians
9. no
10. Three
11. Semitic pastoralists
12. no
13. reed huts
14. no
15. Sumerians.
16. Ubaidian farmers
17. no
18. that of the hunter and fisher peoples
19. no
20. it flooded

Problem: CHAPTER XIX

THE TREASURE

The next morning Harry said:

"I will go upstairs to that look-out place again. I have been up there pretty nearly every day, and stared down. I can't get it out of my mind that the key of the mystery lies there, and that that hole was made for some other purpose than merely throwing stones out on to any of those who might go in behind the rocks. I have puzzled and worried over it."

"Shall I come up with you, Harry?"

"No, I would rather you didn't. I will go up by myself and spend the morning there; some idea may occur to me. You may as well all have a quiet day of it."

He lit his pipe and went upstairs. Jose went off to the mules, and Bertie descended the ladder, and strolled round what they called the courtyard, looking for eggs among the rocks and in the tufts of grass growing higher up. Dias scattered a few handfuls of maize to the chickens and then assisted Maria to catch two of them; after which he descended the ladder and sat down gloomily upon a stone. He had become more and more depressed in spirits as the search became daily more hopeless; and although he worked as hard as anyone, he seldom spoke, while Harry and his brother often joked, and showed no outward signs of disappointment. An hour passed, and then Harry appeared suddenly at the window.

"Bertie, Dias, come up at once, I have an idea!"
1. what lies at the look out place?
2. who thinks this?
3. when was he to go there?
4. alone?
5. did anyone offer to go with him?
6. what did he do before he went there?
7. How did Dias feel?
8. why?
9. Where did BErtie go?
10. why?
11. where?
12. Did she try to catch some bugs?
13. what did she try to catch?
14. How did Harry seem to feel about the search
15. Did he feel anything about the hole?
16. Did Harry have any siblings?
17. How did they interact?
18. Did they seem upset at all?
19. Did Dias joke with them?
20. Did Harry come up with anything while upstairs?
Answer:
1. The key of the mystery.
2. Harry.
3. The morning.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. Lit his pipe and went upstaairs.
7. Gloomy.
8. He was depressed because the search seemed hopeless.
9. The courtyard
10. To look for eggs.
11. Among the rocks and grass.
12. No.
13. Chickens
14. Puzzled and worried.
15. That it had some other purpose than throwing stones in it.
16. Yes
17. They often joked.
18. There were no signs of disappointment.
19. No.
20. Yes.