The Sumerians Succeeded in

question 26

Multiple Choice

The Sumerians succeeded in

• A) turning Mesopotamia into a major city-state similar to those of the Greeks.
• B) establishing a long-lasting and very influential system of writing.
• C) exhibiting such a high degree of cultural awareness that the Greeks ceased to call them "barbarians."
• D) expanding their empire over the entire area of Mesopotamia.
• E) expanding their empire into the Indus Valley of today's Pakistan.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a conditioned response after a pause or period of apparent extinction.

Principle of Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished response after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus, often observed in classical conditioning.

Fear of Rat

An irrational and intense fear of rats, technically known as musophobia.

Conditioning

A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to associate a desired behavior with a previously unrelated stimulus.