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What is a city-state?
answer choices
The area inside the city wall
The city and the countryside around it.
The farmland The market place 2. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What civilization was led by Sargon and was located north of Sumer?
answer choices The Akkadians Egypt Babylonia Sinai Penninsula 3. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Which word describes the religion of the Sumerians?
answer choices monotheistic polytheistic Christian 4. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Who is at the top of the Sumerian social structure?
answer choices priest craftspeople king merchants 5. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What was the name for a person who could read and write in Sumer?
answer choices king government official scribe writer 6. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What is the name for a pyramid shaped temple tower in Sumer?
answer choices pyramid ziggurat church holy tower 7. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q. What is cuneiform? answer choices a way of worship a system of farming a system of writing a type of medicine 8. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
The Sumerians invented which two things?
answer choices fire and flint the wheel and plow
the first buildings and fire
the wheel and the car
9. Multiple-choice 20 seconds Q.
Ancient Sumerians invented irrigation systems and plows. What did these two inventions help provide?
answer choices
a system of government
a partner with whom to trade
a steady supply of food
an honor for the gods
10. Multiple-choice 20 seconds Q.
Which statement shows how Sumerian religion and government were connected?
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Sumerians believed that merchants sold goods for the king.
Sumerians believed that the king got power from the gods.
Sumerians recorded their prayers on clay tablets.
Sumerians recorded the movements of the planets.
11. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
The upper class, common class, and slaves were evidence of Sumer's:
answer choices political system. psychology. social structure. government. 12. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What did the Sumerians invent to improve farming?
answer choices seeds grains plows shovels 13. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Due to the surplus of food what was able to be specilaized?
answer choices Social classes Jobs Religion 14. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Where was Sumer located?
answer choices
In what is now modern Egypt
In north Mesopotamia
In the southern corner of Mesopotamia
15. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What is Mesopotamia?
answer choices
an ancient civilization
a very large city-state
land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers
16. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q. Who was Hammurabi? answer choices
Hammurabi was a God in Ancient Sumer
Hammurabi was the King of Babylon
Hammurabi was a warrior
17. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Who did Hammurabi claim encouraged him to create the laws?
answer choices
The people of Babylon
The Gods The Akkadians 18. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What does the bolded phrase in the sentence mean : The purpose of the laws was to unify and maintain order.
answer choices keep the peace punish people organize people 19. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
answer choices
a story of Babylon's creation
it is the language of Ancient Sumer
it is a collection of written laws and rules
20. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by
answer choices building terraces
removing rain forests
digging irrigation canals
developing chinamaps
21. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Babylonian leader who created the first written code of 282 laws that dealt with almost every part of daily life
answer choices Gilgamesh Sargon Hammurabi Sumer 22. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What label pairs with BCE?
answer choices BC CE AD 23. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
What label pairs with AD?
answer choices BC CE BCE 24. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Which of the following dates would come FIRST on a timeline?
answer choices 1350 BC 500 BC 2016 AD 485 AD 25. Multiple-choice 30 seconds Q.
Which of the following dates would come FIRST on a timeline?
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Agricultural products
In a traditional economic system, which type of good is most often produced
Using irrigation systems
Which practice is closely associated with most ancient river valley civilizations
Irrigation systems
One way in which the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Maya's are similar is that these civilizations developed
Tigris and Euphrates rivers
Which river system is found in Mesopotamia
Rivers that increased the fertility of the land by flooding
Which geographic feature did the earliest civilizations in Egypt, India, and China have in common
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The ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt were similar in the both cultures
Digging irrigation canals
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The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by "digging irrigation canals," since these were vital in order to get a large amount of water to the crops.
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The ancient Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by digging irrigation canals which was a very big part of European development.
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3. digging irrigation canals.
Sumerians lived in present day Iraq which is mostly desert. Being arid with periods of rain, the region of Sumeria was difficult to cultivate crops. The Sumerians used a system of canals and gates to create watered plains with flooding and then closed them off during growing seasons.
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The Sumerians modified their environment to increase food production by: Digging Irrigation Canals.
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