Mesopotamia

Front

The plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers was called _____________. Options: Egypt, Indus Valley, Mesopotamia, Nile Valley

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Mesopotamia

Front

Self-governing (in the context of Sumer city-states)

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It means that the city-states were governed by their own inhabitants

Front

Sumer had only two social classes: the upper class and the middle class.

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False

Front

The Sumerians invented a form of writing called ____________.

Back

Cuneiform

Front

The Sumerians created an heroic poem called __________.

Back

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Front

Who formed a code of laws that later influenced the laws of the Greeks and Romans? Options: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hammurabi, Napoleon Bonaparte

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Hammurabi

Front

How did the Assyrians treat the people they conquered?

Back

They enslaved them and treated them harshly

Front

The Assyrians used the writing and religion of the ___________.

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Sumerians

Front

Who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?

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Nebuchadnezzar II

Front

Babylon was an important trading city connecting Mesopotamia to ________

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India