Tens of Thousands of Sumerian Clay Tablets Have Survived

question 38

Multiple Choice

Tens of thousands of Sumerian clay tablets have survived:

• A) but unfortunately the key to the language has not.
• B) documenting the United Sumerian empire, which lasted from 2900 to 2500 B.C.E.
• C) telling us more about Sumer than we know about any other human society at the time.
• D) probably because the Sumerians kept them in special underground archives.
• E) but all deal with priestly class and reveal nothing about Sumerian society.