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

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

Sumerians invented all of the following EXCEPT

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1. Fire

2. Plow

3. Wheel

4. Cuneiform

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

The wedge-shape writing of the Sumerians was known as

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1. Cuneiform

2. Alphabetic

3. Hieroglyphic

4. Zagrosian

Sumerians used these dirt walls to prevent the fields from flooding

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1. canals

2. levees

3. reservoirs

4. moats

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

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