Midterm River Valley Review

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What does Mesopotamia mean?

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the land between the two rivers

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What are the names of the two rivers in Mesopotamia?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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The most common job in Mesopotamian society was

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farmer

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The Indus River Valley Civilization was located on what river?

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Indus

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Religious practices in Mesopotamia were

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Polytheistic

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What was the writing system of the Mesopotamians, first created by the Sumerians?

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Cuneiform

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Ziggurats were

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Temples for worship and grain storage

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Which of the following were advancements of the Mesopotamians: writing, wheel, plow, and sail; writing, silk, planned cities; silk, pyramids, and astronomy; writing, wheel, and pyramids?

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writing, wheel, plow, and sail

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Which were cities in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley? Options: Sumer and Ur, Sumer and Memphis, Ur and Anyang, Thebes and Luxor

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Sumer and Ur

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Which were cities in the Indus River Valley? Sumer and Ur, Memphis and Luxor, Babylon and Susa

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Mohenjo Daro and Harappa