Sumer and its leading urban center ceased to be dominant factors in Mesopotamia about 2000 B.C.E. when
A) the poor rose up in revolt and destroyed the city.
B) a catastrophic flood destroyed the city.
C) Elamites from the region of present-day Iran destroyed the city.
D) the Hittites from the north invaded and sacked the kingdom.
E) an unknown event destroyed the city.
C
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What will be an ideal response?
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