Social Studies Civilation
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| Mesopotamia is located in the modern country of? | show 🗑
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| Where was the ancient land known as Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| show | city-states.
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| What made Mesopotamia a difficult environment to live in? | show 🗑
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| show | in the Zagros Mountains
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| What was the major disadvantage to the rapid population growth in the foothills? | show 🗑
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| show | People settled in one place, and the population grew.
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| In Sumer, the water supply was | show 🗑
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| What was the key to successful farming in Sumer? | show 🗑
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| Water is to reservoir as money is to | show 🗑
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| Why did farmers clean canals regularly? | show 🗑
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| show | he common good.
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| What caused Sumerians to build larger communities? | show 🗑
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| Suppose you are a Sumerian farmer, and you don’t like having to clean out canals. What might happen if you refused to help? | show 🗑
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| Why did Sumerians build walls around their cities? | show 🗑
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| show | Cities located upriver could block the water flow for cities downriver.
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| show | The walls were made of bricks using local mud
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| A system of government is one characteristic of | show 🗑
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| Why is a stable food supply necessary to make a society into a civilization? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is an example of technology? | show 🗑
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| show | social structure
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| show | the plow
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| show | Sumerians had a social structure
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| show | priests
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| An artisan is someone who | show 🗑
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| Which of these ancient Sumerians most likely made swords for the army? | show 🗑
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| One of the Sumerians strongest beliefs was obeying the will of | show 🗑
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| show | the king
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| The job of a scribe was to | show 🗑
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| show | a stable food supply
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| show | they were expressions of religious belief
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| show | beliefs and behaviors of a society or a group of people,creative forms of expression
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| Why might evidence of music in an ancient civilization lead an archaeologist to conclude that the civilization had a stable food supply? | show 🗑
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| Sumerians first used the wheel to make | show 🗑
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| According to some historians, what is the Sumerians greatest architectural achievement? | show 🗑
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| Sumerian scribes etched their writing onto | show 🗑
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| Plow is to farming as stylus is to | show 🗑
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| show | cuneiform
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| How did the Akkadians change Sumer? | show 🗑
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| show | military skills
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| show | He destroyed the walls of many cities to make it harder for people to rebel.
He replaced disloyal officials with his own men.
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| What did Sargon use to build up his capital city? | show 🗑
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| What did the Akkadian and Sumerian cultures share? | show 🗑
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| Why did the Akkadian Empire weaken under the leadership of kings after Sargon? | show 🗑
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| show | Sumer was once again a collection of independent city-states
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| show | his code of laws
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| show | It was the first set of laws to apply to everyone.
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| How did Hammurabi make sure that there was plenty of food for Babylonia? | show 🗑
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| What helped Babylon become an important center of trade? | show 🗑
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| show | own property
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| What new weapon did the Assyrians develop for warfare? | show 🗑
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| How did the Assyrians weaken their enemies before battles even began? | show 🗑
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| show | The kings were required to obey the gods
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| show | the Babylonians regained control over Mesopotamia
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| show | he took most of the Hebrew captive and brought them to Babylonia
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| show | Nebuchadrezzar worked hard to restore the splendor of Babylon under Hammurabi
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| Who conquered Babylon and brought the Neo-Babylonian Empire to an end? | show 🗑
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| Which is the proper sequence of empires that ruled Mesopotamia? | show 🗑
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| show | empire
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