The ancient Sumerians...
"The Literature of Ancient Mesopotamia" - RI.1 Checkpoint

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lived in walled city-states
had one powerful, central government
based their economy mostly on art
did not develop a very high level of culture
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The Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia sometime between...
500 and 400 BC
20,000 and 15,000 BC
300 and 400 AD
5,000 and 4,000 BC
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The natural resource of Mesopotamia that was most important to the Sumerians was...
stone
river mud
lumber
papyrus
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Cuneiform is...
an Egyptian invention
a mathematical formula
a system of writing achieved by pressing a stylus, or stick, into soft clay
a type of building
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The ziggurats are a good example of the Sumerians' advanced understanding of...
government
agriculture
architecture
medicine
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When the Babylonians conquered the Sumerians, they...
destroyed all traces of Sumerian writings
preserved Sumerian writings in the Library of Nineveh
adapted the Sumerian's script to their own Semitic language
made Gilgamesh their king
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Which of the following statements is true of ancient Mesopotamia?
The ancient culture of the Sumerians was destroyed by the Egyptians.
Many different groups of people successfully invaded the area.
The Akkadian empire was the last great empire of Mesopotamia.
No one reads the literature of the Mesopotamians today.
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