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In Mesopotamia, people eventually combined symbols into a script known as
exile.
cuneiform.
empire.
famine.
What is a city-state?
A beach
Cities that acted as politically independent states.
A building
A restaurant
What is the name of the first civilization in Mesopotamia?
Sumeria
Clayton
Turkey
China
Why was King Sargon I so important?
He gave everyone food
United the Sumerian city-states
Planned parties every month
He invented cars.
The following are all accomplishments of the Babylonians except:
Telling time
Cuneiform
Irrigation
Building Riverwood Middle School
Sumerians were polytheistic people. What does this mean?
They believed in one god.
They didn't believe in any gods.
They believed there were many gods.
They believed the cow was a god.
Sumerians built ______________ dedicated to the chief god or goddess.
ziggurats
churches
houses
caves
A form of government in which a god or a deity is the supreme ruler.
epic
poem
time
theocracy
Which of the following is a long poem, usually about a hero?
book
story
epic
news article
A large area of many territories and people living in them, in which all are controlled by one government.
Empire
house
state
cave
There was still NO need for a written language, math, laws, medicine, agriculture and other developments because of the lack of commitment of people in the civilization willing to do work.
True
False
When trading increased, the population ___________.
got smaller
got bigger
stayed the same
none of the above
Floods came to Mesopotamia ____________.
every year
once a month
every day
every hour
Which of the following social classes made up the largest population of Mesopotamia but also had the fewest rights?
priests
farmers
merchants
slaves
Sumerian buildings were made from what?
wood
mud bricks
water
leaves
When there is more of something than is needed, it is called a _______________.
social structure
not enough
surplus
city-state
1. The oldest story, which dates back to Mesopotamia, is ________________.
The Epic of Enkidu
The Epic of Samson
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of the Tigris
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