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What period of history comes after the Medieval age?

• Historical age

• Ancient age

• Prehistoric age

• Modern age

……………period of history is continued until around the time Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.

• Medieval

• Modern

• Ancient

• prehistory

Historians divided history into ______ periods

• two

• four

• three

• five

The century is generally taken as the beginning of the the modern period

• 18th

• 17th

• 16h

• 19th

Diaries and accounts of pilgrims are examples of

• official records

• survey records

• indigenous records

• foreign records

Early Mesopotamian farmers used a system for watering crops called

• silt

• irrigation

• dams

• surplus

A ziggurat was considered a

• large temple to honor god

• farming area

• large pyramid shaped building

• place where the king lived

Sumerian people worshiped many gods, this is known as

• religion

• ziggurat

• cuneiform

• polytheism

Why was cuneiform an important part of history?

• It showed how Sumerians worshiped multiple gods.

• It showed how Sumerians kept records of their lives and history.

• It showed how Sumerians farmed their lands.

• I don't know!

A Sumerian temple to honor their chief god was called a

• scribe

• cradle

• ziggurat

• Gilgamesh