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Gilgamesh was associated with what city

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Uruk

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Enkidu was

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Gilgamesh's friend

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Which of the following subjects is not addressed in the Epic of Gilgamsh

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an explanation for the divinity of Mesopotamian kings

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In the Epic of Gilgamesh humans were not allowed to live forever because

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a serpent carried away the plant for immortality

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The earliest urban societies developed in the

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fourth millennium B.C.E.

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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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Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur, and Kish were all associated with

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Mesopotamian

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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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Mesopotamian cultural and political brilliance reached its peak during the reign of

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Hammurabi

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What individual believed that the gods had chosen him to "provide the welfare of the people... [and] to cause justice to prevail in the land"

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Hammurabi

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The words lex talionis relate to

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the law of retaliation that appears in Hammurabi's Code

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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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The Babylonians eventually fell in 1595 B.C.E. to the

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Hittites

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The later Mesopotamian people who around 1000 B.C.E. built a large empire based on a powerful army with iron weapons and who made extensive use of terror were the

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Assyrians

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What Mesopotamian society built the largest empire

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Assyrians

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A Babylonian resurgence of power was led in the sixth century B.C.E. by

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Nebuchadnezzar

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The famous hanging gardens of the ancient world were located in

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Babylon

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Mesopotamian metalworkers discovered that if they alloyed copper and tin they could produce

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bronze

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Iron metallurgy came to Mesopotamia from the

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Hittites

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The first people in the world to use wheeled vehicles were the

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Sumerians

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Evidence proves that Mesopotamians

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traded extensively with peoples from far away Anatolia, Egypt, and India

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Social distinctions in Mesopotamia

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were much more pronounced than they had been during the neolithic age

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In Mesopotamia, prisoners of war, convicted criminals, and heavily indebted individuals were the three main sources for

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slaves

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Mesopotamia developed into

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a strict patriarchal society

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Some scholars believe that patriarchal social orders arose because of

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a concern for property and family fortunes

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Conditions for women in Mesopotamia

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grew increasingly worse over time

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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 was 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 Mesopotamians

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were mainly interested in vocational education

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The patriarch of the Hebrews was

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Abraham

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Ethical monotheism was in the tradition of the

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Hebrews

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Hebrew law

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borrowed the concept of lex talionis from Hammurabi's Code

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Hebrew monotheism has its origins with

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Moses

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The first simplified alphabet, containing only twenty-two letters, was created by the

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Phoenicians

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Which of the following languages is not of Indo-Europeans origin

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Egyptian

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The original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was

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southern Russia

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The most influential ancient Indo-European migrants into southwest Asia were the

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Hittites

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Horse-drawn chariots were first invented by the

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Hittites

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Hebrew God

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Yahweh

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Invented the horse-drawn chariot

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Hittites

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First conqueror to unite all of Mesopotamia

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Sargon of Akkad

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Legal principle of the law of retaliation

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Lex talionis

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"Wedge-shaped"

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Cuneiform

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Helped create a shared linguistic base

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Indo-Europians

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First alphabet

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Phoenicians

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Constructed the largest empire of the Mesopotamian societies

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Assyrians

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Leader who led a Babylonian resurgence in the sixth century B.C.E.

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Nebuchadnezzar

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True founder of Hebrew Monotheism

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Moses

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Hero of the oldest known epic

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Gilgamesh

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Powerful Babylonian king who formulated a sophisticated law code

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Hammurabi

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