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A king of the city-state of Uruk.
A hero in a popular Mesopotamian epic.
A warrior in conflict with the city of Kish.
A legendary loyal friend of Enkidu. |
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| What is not true of the land called Mesopotamia? |
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| It is a land of abundant rainfall and fertile plains. |
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| What did Sumerian cities and their governments do? |
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Organize work on building projects.
rule over the area surrounding the city.
oversee the construction and maintenance of irrigation systems.
organize the defense of the city against attacks. |
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| was a gifted administrator and warrior. |
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| In Hammurabi's code you would be unlikely to find |
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| laws that indicate a suspect is innocent until proven guilty. |
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WHich of the following peoples did not rule a Mesopotamian empire?
Assyrians
Hittites
Jews
Chaldeans
Akkadians |
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| What is the latest mesopotamian invention? |
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| Fact about social classes of ancient Mesopotamia. |
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| Priests and priestesses were powerful rulers over temple communities. |
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| involved wedge-shaped symbols pressed onto clay with a reed. |
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| What was not a form of written documentation from Mesopotamia? |
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| instructions on mummification of bodies. |
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recounts the adventures of Gilgamesh and his friend.
describes the hero's efforts to attain immortality.
explored relations between humans and the gods.
contemplates the meaning of life and death. |
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were not settled agriculturalists.
were not led out of Palestine by Abraham.
were not always monotheists.
were not the first Indo-Europeans to settle in southwest Asia. |
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| The religious beliefs of the Israelites after Moses included |
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| After the tenth century B.C.E., the Israelites experienced |
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the division of the kingdom of Israel.
conquest by the Assyrians.
the destruction of Jerusalem by the New Babylonian empire.
the return of deportees to Judea where they became known as Jews |
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| were prosperous based on their sea trade and commercial networks. |
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| According to the excerpt "Israelites' Relations with Neighboring Peoples," |
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| Solomon sent laborers to Hiram. |
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| Who first deduced the existence of an Indo-European culture? |
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| nineteenth-century linguists. |
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| What is not associated with the Phoenicians? |
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| The key element in the expansion of the Indo-Europeans from their homeland was |
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| What was not an area to which the Indo-Europeans migrated? |
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