Which of the following is NOT a feature of Sumerian civilization?
(A) a simplified alphabet of 22 letters
(B) ziggurats
(C) cuneiform
(D) city-States
(E) a numeric system based on 10, 60, and 360
Answer: A
AP World History
- Stone tools, hunting and gathering, and an increasing number of Homo sapiens sapiens are features of the
- In early China, unity and cultural identity were provided by
- Compared to river valley cultures in Egypt and Mesopotamia, Chinese civilization
- Unlike Sumer and Egypt, the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization
- Unlike Sumer and the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization, Egypt
- Cuneiform and other types of writing are important in part because they
- The start of sedentary agriculture
- Metalworking was important to agricultural and herding societies for each of the following reasons EXCEPT:
- The transformation that was most responsible for moving humans toward civilization was the
- Once developed, metal tools were preferred over stone tools for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
- Why did the original inhabitants of Australia not develop agriculture?
- The characteristic political organization of the Tigris-Euphrates civilization was
- The development of writing
- The earliest known writing in a civilization first developed in
- The development of agriculture caused important changes in all of the following EXCEPT
- Which of the following areas was NOT one of the earliest civilizations to develop?
- Egypt differed from Mesopotamian civilization by stressing
- Hunting and gathering societies
- Jewish monotheism
- Sumerian civilization produced the first
- The Paleolithic Age refers to
- A society is almost certainly a civilization if
- A characteristic of the human species before the advent of civilization was
- Which river valley civilization was most completely destroyed by natural disasters such as climate change?