The largest and most important city in Mesopotamia, which achieved particular eminence as the capital of the Amorite king Hammurabi in the eighteenth century B.C.E., was
a. Akkad
b. Babylon
c. Babylonia
d. Baghdad
e. Jericho
ANSWER:
b
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