input: Make use of the article to answer the questions. Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 BC, which contained at this time the minor administrative town of Babylon. Babylon greatly expanded from the small provincial town that it had originally been during the Akkadian Empire (2335-2154 BC) during the reign of Hammurabi in the first half of the 18th century BC, becoming a major capital city. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was called "Mat Akkadi" "the country of Akkad" in the Akkadian language. It was often involved in rivalry with its older fellow Akkadian-speaking state of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, as well as Elam to the east, in Ancient Iran. Babylonia briefly became the major power in the region after Hammurabi (fl. c. 1792 1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696 1654 BC, short chronology) created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire; however, the Babylonian empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and reverted back to a small kingdom.

The Babylonian state, like Assyria to the north, retained the written Akkadian language for official use (the language of its native populace), despite its Northwest Semitic-speaking Amorite founders and Kassite successors, who spoke a language isolate, not being native Mesopotamians. It retained the Sumerian language for religious use (as did Assyria), but already by the time Babylon was founded, this was no longer a spoken language, having been wholly subsumed by Akkadian. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian and Assyrian culture, and the region would remain an important cultural center, even under its protracted periods of outside rule. 1. What is this about?
2. Where is that?
3. When was it created?
4. What did it have in it?
5. Did it stay small?
6. When did it get bigger?
7. Who ruled during this time?
8. What did it turn into then?
9. What did they speak there?
10. What was it called in that?
11. What does that mean?
numbered_answers: 1. The Babylonia State
2. central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq).
3. 1894 BC,
4. minor administrative town of Babylon.
5. No
6. first half of the 18th century BC
7. Hammurabi
8. a major capital city.
9. Akkadian language
10. Mat Akkadi
11. the country of Akkad

input: Erden Eruc has been rowing across the Pacific Ocean in a rowboat since he left California on July 10, 2007. He has been heading for Australia with only birds, fish, and sharks ever since. Crossing the Pacific is only part of his journey. Eruc has decided to go all the way around the world using his own energy. He will row, bike, walk and climb the world without help from any motors at all. His plan includes climbing the tallest peak on six of the continents along the way. For the first part of his trip, he bicycled 5,546 miles from Seattle, Washington to Mount McKinley in Alaska and back, walked 67 miles to base camp and climbed 20,320 feet to McKinley's peak. Now in the second part of his adventure , he is rowing to Australia. Why would he try to go around the world this way? He explains that he wants to encourage kids to dream their dreams and get to their own goals. He wants to show kids that there might be hard parts along the way, and sometimes they might not even get to that final goal. But they can have adventures and learn a lot along the way. When his trip around the world takes him across land, he enjoys meeting people---especially children. He has already visited many schools and shared his story. Eruc encourages all kids to set their eyes on a goal and not give up. He says, "with goals, we will make progress, and we will be farther along than when we started, even if we don't get to some goals. That's called life!" 1. Is Eruc crossing the entire world?
2. Is he using any sort of motor?
3. How is he getting around?
4. What methods?
5. What was the first part of his trip?
6. What is the second part?
7. Why is he doing this?
8. Does he visit schools?
9. Is he going to do anything along the way?
10. What is he going to do?
11. When did he leave for his trip?
12. Where did he leave from?
13. How is he traveling? Return numbered answers in your output.

output: 1. yes
2. no
3. using his own energy
4. row, bike, walk and climb
5. Crossing the Pacific
6. he is rowing to Australia
7. he wants to encourage kids
8. yes
9. yes
10. meet people
11. July 10, 2007
12. California
13. using his own energy.

Q: Every month, Julia and her cousins would go to visit their grandparents. They would be excited because their grandfather would give them a few coins. Then they would buy toys and sweets. The grandparents commented that, behaving like this, the children would never learn to manage their money. So they planned a special test, in which the children would have to show, over the course of a year, just what they could manage to get with those few coins.

Some thought that they would save their money, but Rubin and Nico continued spending it all on sweets. So they give up saving.

Monty decided to manage his money by exchanging it: buying and selling things, or bettering it with others. Soon he surprised the whole family. He had accumulated lots of money. However, Monty was not very careful, and he got involved in more and more risky deals. A few months later he became penniless after a losing bet.

Alex, had a will of iron. He saved the money and at the end of the year he had collected more money than anyone. Even better, with so much money, he had managed to buy sweets at a reduced price, so that on the day of the competition he was presented with enough sweets for more than a year. And even then, he still had enough left for a toy. He was the clear winner, and other children learnt the advantages of knowing how to save and how to wait.

There was also Julia. Poor Julia didn't enjoy the competition because even though she had a wonderful secret plan, she had spent her money without giving her plan enough time to work. However, she was so sure that her plan was a good one, that she decided to carry on with it, and maybe change the expressions on her s' faces, who had seemed to be saying "What a disaster that girl is. She couldn't manage to save anything."

When she was about to complete the second year of her plan, Julia surprised everyone by turning up at the grandparents' house with a violin and a lot of money. She did it very well.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who spent money on sweets
2. Where did the money come from?
3. Did her grandma approve?
4. Why not?
5. Which cousin had willpower?
6. What did he accomplish?
7. Who lost all their moola?
8. Who lost it gambling??
9. How many kids were competing?
10. Did any of them learn a lesson?
11. Who?
12. Who purchased the instrument?
13. During the first year?
14. How long did it take?
15. Who devised the experiment?
A:
1. Julia and her cousins
2. their grandfather
3. no
4. they thought the children would never learn to manage their money
5. Alex
6. He saved the money
7. Julia
8. Monty
9. Five
10. yes
11. Children other than Alex
12. Julia
13. no
14. Until she was about to complete the second year of her plan
15. The grandparents