Human Legacy Course/Quiz 4

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1

What is the area whose name means, "between the rivers," and is the site of the world's first known civilization?

	Tigris
	Hammurabi
	Mesopotamia
	Geometry

2

What is the term used to describe the worship of many gods?

	Polytheism
	Monotheism
	Cuneiform
	Ziggurat

3

What was the name of the people who developed the first known civilization?

	Hammurabi
	Akkadians
	Enlil
	Sumerians

4

What was an early system of writing that was used?

	Geometry
	Cuneiform
	City-State
	Scribe

5

Who was the Babylonian king known for a written code of law?

	Enlil
	Akkadians
	Hammurabi
	Tigris

6

Who were the group of people ruled by Sargon I?

	Akkadians
	Sumerians
	Enlil
	Euphrates

7

What is the name of a pyramid-shaped temple?

	Scribe
	Ziggurat
	City-State
	Enlil

8

What was the name of the Sumerian god believed to rule the air and storms?

	Hammurabi
	Tigris
	Akkadian
	Enlil

9

What is a series of rulers from one family?

	Polytheism
	Cuneiform
	Dynasty
	Scribe

10

What is the term used to describe an educated man or woman paid to create written documents?

	Scribe
	Ziggurat
	Enlil
	Akkadian