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The hero of an epic who travels the world performing great deeds with his friend Enkidu
a) Assyrians
b) Gilgamesh
c) Astronomer
d) Nineveh

The site of one of the world's first libraries
a) Nineveh
b) Assyrians
c) Ziggurat
d) Astronomers

The first large army to use iron weapons
a) Assyrians
b) Nineveh
c) Gilgamesh
d) Ziggurat

The people who study the heavenly bodies
a) Astronomers
b) Nineveh
c) Assyrians
d) Ziggurat

A pyramid-shaped structure with a temple on top
a) Ziggurat
b) Astronomers
c) Nineveh
d) Assyrians

Means the land between two rivers
a) Mesopotamia
b) Cuneiform
c) Irrigation
d) Civilization

Complex societies that have organized governments, culture, and writing
a) Civilization
b) Cuneiform
c) City-State
d) Irrigation

A method to bring water to crops
a) Irrigation
b) Cuneiform
c) Civilization
d) City-State

Area that is independent, meaning it has its own government, army and king. It is also not part of any larger territory
a) City-State
b) Mesopotamia
c) Civilization
d) Cuneiform

A form of writing developed by the people of Sumer
a) Cuneiform
b) Civilization
c) Irrigation
d) Mesopotamia

The system developed by the Sumerians was based on
a) the number 60
b) the Roman calendar
c) the cycles of the moon
d) the geometry of the wheel

Although most Sumerians were farmers, many made metal, cloth, and pottery because they were skilled
a) artisans
b) merchants
c) slaves
d) priests

Which group of people captured Babylon in 612 B.C.?
a) the Hittites
b) the Persians
c) the Chaldeans
d) the Assyrians

The few Sumerians who learned how to write often held high positions in society as what?
a) scribes
b) artisans
c) head of household
d) merchants

Where did the first civilizations arise because of farming conditions?
a) in river valleys
b) near a sea
c) in the desert
d) in the mountains

Mesopotamian artisans, merchants, and fishers made up this social group.
a) craftworkers
b) nobles
c) business
d) farmers

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