During the Second and Third Millennia B

question 44

Multiple Choice

During the second and third millennia B.C., the inhabitants of Mesopotamia were

• A) dominated by a single empire centered at Uruk.
• B) dependent on a diet of millet and pig.
• C) practitioners of scapulimancy.
• D) subdivided politically into a series of city-states.

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