Question

1. How did Sumerians use cuneiform to strengthen their religious practice?

a. They wrote down prayers.
b.Priests wrote letters to their gods.
c. Common people wrote letters to priests.
d. They wrote down their religious experiences.

2. What two activities formed the basis of Sumer's economy?

a.farming and trade
b. writing and religion
c.astronomy and wheels
d.mathematics and technology

3. What geographic feature of the Fertile Crescent led to the rise of Sumerian civilization?

a. It was very dry.
b. It flooded often.
c. It had hard clay soil.
d. It had insufficient topsoil.

4. Why is Hammurabi's Code a great Babylonian achievement?

a. It established laws that created peace and stability.
b. It created a system of roads that unified the empire.
c. It made people financially responsible for their military.
d. It listed all of the powers of the rulers of the empire.

Answer 1

1.D
2.A
3.B
4.A
There you go,
not sure of some but they should be ok.

Answer 2

1. How did Sumerians use cuneiform to strengthen their religious practice?

a. They wrote down prayers.

The Sumerians developed the cuneiform system, that is one of the earliest forms of writing in history. It consists of making sharped marks on clay tablets. The Sumerians used the cuneiform system to many things, including religion, with that they wrote down prayers. The Department of Archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania discovered in 1911 a series of plates of autograph texts that contain many prayers to the “God NIN-IB” made by the Sumerians.

2. What two activities formed the basis of Sumer's economy?

a.farming and trade

The Sumerians did not have much natural resources, since they developed their irrigational system they were able to farm, but they relied on trade to get things that they needed. Sumerians offered wool that was from animals like sheeps and goats, cloth, jewlery, oil, grains and wine for trade.

3. What geographic feature of the Fertile Crescent led to the rise of Sumerian civilization?

b. It flooded often.

The Fertile Crescent is a region of the Middle East that made possible for many civilizations to develop, amongst them the Sumerians. That region was located close to the rivers Tigris and Euphrates that often had floods every year which also made possible for them to develop the irrigational system and plant crops.

4. Why is Hammurabi's Code a great Babylonian achievement?

a. It established laws that created peace and stability.

Hammurabi was a Babylon leader that created the Hammurabi code. This code is very important because it is one of the earliest forms of legal codes in history. The Even though the Hammurabi Code is known for the rule “an eye for an eye” the code is also very important because it developed an early form of constitutional government, codified presumption of innocence and also the ability to one to present evidence. This created peace and stability during that time.