Urban Dwellers Took the Decisive Steps of Transition from Animism

question 56

Multiple Choice

Urban dwellers took the decisive steps of transition from animism to polytheism in the period 3500-2500 BCE when what factors came to the fore?

• A) Disease suddenly made Mesopotamian cattle extinct, and bull gods disappeared
• B) Forces of nature began to lose influence and to spark fear in daily life
• C) The Bronze Age collapse called the existence of animal gods into doubt
• D) The Israelites' Ten Commandments were widely publicized in the Levant

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