Mesopotamia

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Skilled workers who made metal products, cloth, or pottery are called

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artisans

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The Sumerian writing system was called

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cuneiform

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Who wrote a legal code that covered most areas of daily life?

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Hammurabi

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Grand temple with a shrine at the top

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ziggurat

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Building dams, channels, canals, and ditches to bring water to crops

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irrigation

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Record keepers who often kept records for government officials

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scribes

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Civilization in Mesopotamia developed between which two rivers? Options: the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, the Tigris and the Persian Gulf, the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates, the Euphrates and the Tigris

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the Euphrates and the Tigris

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Which of these are Sumerian inventions? Plow, Wheel, Sailboat

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All of them

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An independent city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

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City-State

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What modern day country is Mesopotamia mostly in? Options: India, Egypt, China, Iraq

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Iraq