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15 Cards in this Set
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Gilgamesh was associated with what city?
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Uruk
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The word Mesopotamia means
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"the land between the rivers"
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The first complex society developed in the southern Mesopotamian land of
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Sumer
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The word semitic refers to
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a language type
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A Mesopotamian stepped pyramid was known as a
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Ziggurat
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Which of the following societies possessed the least degree of strong centralized rule?
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Sumer
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The creator of the first empire in Mesopotamia was
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Sargon
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While Hammurabi's code was based on the concept of Lex Talionis, it was also shaped by
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Social standing
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What Mesopotamian society built the largest empire?
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Assyrians
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Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the
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Hittites
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Mesopotamia developed into
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a strict patriarchal society
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The Mesopotamian style of writing was known as
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Cuneiform
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The statement,"If she was not careful, but gadabout, thus neglecting her house (and) humiliating her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water," is drawn from
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Hammurabi's Code
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The patriarch of the Hebrews was
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Abraham
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The first simplified alphabet, containing only 22 letters, was created by the
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Phoenicians
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