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Mesopotamia

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  • Q1
    a flat elevated area of land

    plain

    plateau

    city-state

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  • Q2
    a large area of flat, open land
    plain

    plateau

    administrator

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  • Q3
    a self-governing unit made up of a city and its surrounding villages and farmland

    artisan

    administrator

    city-state
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  • Q4
    a person who manages or directs a government or organization

    epic nomad

    artisan

    administrator
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  • Q5
    a worker who is skilled in making a particular product by hand

    nomad

    artisan

    epic

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  • Q6
    A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
    epic

    polytheism

    nomad

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  • Q7
    A person who moves from place to place in search of food

    cuneiform

    polytheism

    nomad
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  • Q8
    belief in more than one god

    cuneiform

    scribe

    polytheism
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  • Q9
    A system of writing in which wedge-shaped symbols represented words or syllables.

    scribe

    cuneiform

    code

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  • Q10
    A professional writer or record keeper

    nomad

    astronomer

    scribe
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  • Q11
    a nation and the other nations it has conquered; a political unit often made up of several nations under one authority

    exile

    epic

    empire
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  • Q12
    any organized set of laws and rules
    code

    scribe

    cuneiform

    30s
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  • Q13
    enforced absence form one's country
    exile

    empire

    code

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  • Q14
    A scientist who studies the stars and other objects in the sky

    scribe

    astronomer

    nomad

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  • Q15

    The climate of the Mesopotamian plain included:

    hot, dry weather year around

    hot, dry summers with flooding in spring and fall

    rain and flooding year around

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  • Q16

    The ancient Sumerians handled climate problems by:

    giving up farming for other occupations

    creating a irrigation system 

    harvesting crops at a different time of year

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  • Q17

    Developed and made public an organized set of laws

    Shamshi-Adad

    Hammurabi

    Sargon 

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  • Q18

    Created the world's first empire by conquering the Sumerian city states

    Sargon

    Hammurabi

    Shamshi-Adad

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  • Q19

    Built the Assyrian Empire into a trade and military power

    Hammurabi

    Sargon

    Shamshi-Adad

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  • Q20

    Created the Babylonian Empire and came to rule all Mesopotamia

    Sargon 

    Shamshi-Adad

    Hammurabi

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