1) The Greeks named the fertile area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers Mesopotamia,
which meant
a) the gifts of the rivers
b) the gifts of the gods
c) the fertile plain
d) the land between the rivers
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2) The Sumerians believed in a great many gods, which is called
a) polytheism
b) polyunsaturated
c) polyglot
d) polynomial
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3) Cuneiform writing used a wedge-shaped stylus to make marks on
a) clay tablets
b) dried sheep-skins
c) sand tables
d) papyrus
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4) The person who established the first known empire was
a) nimrod
b) abraham
c) sargon
d) akkad
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5) What inventions of the Sumerians were the Romans known to have used?
a) a plow with a seeding attachment
b) defensive towers
c) lunar calendar
d) building techniques
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6) The capital city of the Amorite Empire was
a) Babylon
b) Nimrod
c) Damascus
d) Akkad
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7) The Amorite king Hammurabi is best remembered for
a) his military leadership
b) his system of irrigation canals
c) his code of laws
d) his name
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8) How did the Babylonians try to correct the errors of the lunar calendar?
a) invented a solar calendar
b) observed the phases of Mars
c) adding a month every few years
d) added extra days to 1 month each year
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9) Which civilization produced the epic poem Gilgamesh?
a) Hebrew
b) Amorite
c) Sumerian
d) Assyrian
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10) The belief that human events are controlled by the position of the planets and stars is
called
a) Astronomy
b) Astolabe
c) Astrology
d) Asceticism
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