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1. What was ancient Mesopotamian civilization comprised of?
Network cities
2. What was the key geographic factor that made civilization in ancient Mesopotamia possible?
That it was located in ariver valley.
3. What was a disadvantage of the natural environment of Mesopotamia?
Water and defense problem.
4. What factors made agriculture possible in Mesopotamia?
The flooding of therivers and irrigation
5. How did the inhabitants of the lower tigris and Euphrates live until about 3500 B.C.E?
They lived in scatter villages and small towns.
6. What group is credited withcreating the first Mesopotamian civilization?
Sumerians
7. What was the defense problem faced by Mesopotamians and how was it addressed?
Invasion from nomads, no natural barriers. They madebigger walls from mud bricks and they set up a board trading center.
8. What set the educational standard for Mesopotamian culture?
Sumerian scribal schools
9. What evidence suggests that theMesopotamians made sophisticated advancements in mathematics?
The building of cities palaces temples (ziggurats) and irrigation canals
10. In what way did religion impact how the people ofMesopotamia viewed their environment?
They were polytheistic
11. Who was Hammurabi?
Leader of amorites, who replaced the sumarians. He founded the city of Babylon and he created the first law codes.12. What were the three things that Hammurabi set out to do?
Make Babylon secure, unify Mesopotamia and win for Babylon’s a place in Mesopotamian civilization.
13. What was the largestcategory of focus in hammurabi’s law code?
Marriage and the family
14. What did hammurabi’s law code say with regard to sexual promiscuity?
That it was tolerated for men only
15. What were the mainuses of cuneiform?
For recored keeping, teaching and used to record Mesopotamian literature
16. Who developed cuneiform?
The sumerians
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