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The duties of the king included leading the army, enforcing laws, and
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1. Building temples
2. Shoveling silt out of the canals
3. Making baskets
4. Being a scribe
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What was the relationship between religion and government in
Mesopotamia?
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1. The priests elected the king
2. The king appointed the gods
3. The people elected the king and the priests
4. The king was believed to be chosen by the gods to rule
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Sumerians invented all of the following EXCEPT
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1. Fire
2. Plow
3. Wheel
4. Cuneiform
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Which improvements for farming were developed by the
Sumerians?
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1. Bridges and terraces
2. Irrigation and plows
3. Ziggurats and pyramids
4. Fences and digging sticks
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The wedge-shape writing of the Sumerians was known as
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1. Cuneiform
2. Alphabetic
3. Hieroglyphic
4. Zagrosian
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Sumerians used these dirt walls to prevent the fields from flooding
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1. canals
2. levees
3. reservoirs
4. moats
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As the Sumerians worked together to maintain the irrigation
system, they began to
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1. Attack one another
2. Travel to the Zagros mountains for more water
3. Live in caves
4. Live in larger communities
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The earliest cities in Sumer were called city-states because they had their own
ruler and their own
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1. god
2. marketplace
3. ziggurat
4. farmland