Mesopotamia inventions

"Cuneiform" comes from the Latin word "cuneus" which means.......

• triangular-shaped

• weird-shaped

• wedge-shaped

• ancient-shaped

by which civilizations were developed the cuneiform writing............​ ​

• Assyrians and Chaldeans
• Phoenicians and Babylonians
• Sumerians and Babylonians
• Sumerians and Assyrians

How much time did last the use of cuneiform writing......

Irrigation is...........to apply .............artificially with ​........... ​

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• water

• tubes or pipes.
• a mechanism
• a process

• water to soil

The Babylonian calendar consisted in ​

Which Mesopotamian king ordered an extensive code of laws to be engraved in stone?

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Sargon

• Gilgamesh

• Hammurabi

What famous principle of justice did these laws follow?

• Innocent until proven otherwise

• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

• The law is the same for everyone

• The end justifies the means

Hammurabi code was one of the first.........

Why mathematics was necessary?

• Because of the development of cuneiform writing

• Because of they needed to counting money

• Because of the development of agriculture

Some of the knowledge the Sumerians left us were:

• solved linear and quadratic algebraic equations

• solved inequalities

• invented the number zero

• We inherited the division of time into 60 minutes, 60 seconds.