Multiple choice

What is a city-state?

  1. pyramid-shaped temples

  2. Where Mrs. Lenz was born - waaay back then!

  3. a city ruling the countryside around it

  4. land w/ diff. territories & peoples under a single rule
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C Correct answer
Explanation

A city-state is an independent city that exercises political and economic control over the surrounding rural territory. This was the primary political unit in ancient Sumer.

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