Ancient Mesopotamia

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Ancient Mesopotamia was located between what two rivers?

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Tigris and Euphrates

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There were, at one time, 282 laws that had to be followed. They were known as ...

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Code of Hammurabi

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Mesopotamians wrote on

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Clay tablets

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Empires of Mesopotamia built __________________ to honor their gods.

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ziggurats

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Who was the Babylonian King who created the earliest known collection/ code of laws?

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Hammurabi

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What is the term for the writing system developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay?

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cuneiform

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a city that governs itself and its surrounding territory

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city-state

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a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes, or streams

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irrigation

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Why was writing first invented? Options: to display laws, to communicate with foreign lands, to act as a form of entertainment, to keep record of business transactions

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to keep record of business transactions

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What is the name of the earliest piece of  written literature that still survives today?

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The epic of Gilgamesh