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Question 1

Some of the definitions of labor include:

Answer 1

The use of writing, division of labor, and use of metals

Question 2

what three inventions can be traced back to Mesopotamia: silk cloth, ink, sailboats, the arch, gold coins, calendars, horseshoes, or umbrellas..?

Answer 2

sailboats, calendars, the arch

Question 3

the four major Mesopotamian cultures were:

Answer 3

Amorite, Assyrian, Sumerian, and Chaldean

Question 4

Sumerian law had no concept of ..

Answer 4

accidental crime

Question 5

The original writing system of Mesopotamia was doubtless ideographic which means..

Answer 5

Picture writing

Question 6

Sumerian mathematics was based upon the number..

Answer 6

60

Question 7

the goddess of fertility in Mesopotamia is ..

Answer 7

Istar

Question 8

The Sumerian story of Ziusudra indicates these people have a folk-memory of ..

Answer 8

A great flood

Question 9

The most important king of the Amorites (Old Babylonians) was..

Answer 9

Hammurabi

Question 10

The Babylonian Job is a story that raises the problem of ..

Answer 10

evil in human existence

Question 11

The Assyrian culture is primarily remembered for it’s ..

Answer 11

war-making

Question 12

the Chaldeans were the best ………………………. of Mesopotamia

Answer 12

astronomers