River Valleys (WH.1A, WH.2B, WH.15B, WH.18B, WH.19B, WH.26A)

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Which two rivers does Mesopotamia lie between? Tigris and Euphrates, Euphrates and Tiber, Yangtze and Huang He, Tiber and Nile

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Tigris and Euphrates

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Ziggurats were built to-

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Worship gods.

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Which of the following is NOT true of Hammurabi's laws? It covered many aspects of Babylonian life, not just crimes. It was used by many later civilizations as a model. The laws are written in stone. It treated all people the same under the law.

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It treated all people the same under the law.

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The few Mesopotamians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?

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Scribes

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What was the main religion of the Mesopotamians?

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Polytheism

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Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops is also known as

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irrigation

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The Sumerian writing system was called

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Cuneiform

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Most city-states of Mesopotamia used ________ as their primary building material.

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Mud Brick

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A family of kings or other rulers who have ruled over a country for many years.

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Dynasty

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The Rosetta Stone is the stone tablet that…

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helped to decipher hieroglyphics.