Aside from the Invention of Writing, Perhaps the Greatest Advance

question 20

Multiple Choice

Aside from the invention of writing, perhaps the greatest advance made by the early Mesopotamians was in

• A) drainage and irrigation.
• B) poetry and art.
• C) law and government.
• D) mathematics and chronology.
• E) religion and art.

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