Gilgamesh
He wanted to be famous
Who is Gilamesh
These were the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reached from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What is the Euphrates and Tigris river?
The two rivers that multiple city-states fought over, and tried to control, for water and food.
What were the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The law of the Babylonians.
What is Hammurabi's code?
The Sumerians created an invention that helped them in the war.
What is the wagon?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay a horrible monster
Who is Humbaba
It is known as the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia
This city state was closer to the Perasian Gulf than the other city states.
What was Ur?
This is the material that the stele, with Hammurabi's code on it, was made with.
What was black diorite.
Shamash was the god of this.
What is justice?
They believed that Gilgamesh and Enkidu had the power of the gods.
Who are the gods
The language of the Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform
The closest city state to the Euphrates river.
Where was Kish?
The god on the stele.
Who is Shamash?
Modern time Jordan and modern time Palestine, were located here.
What was the Fertile Cresent?
She fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar
These were shrines that the Sumerians built for the gods that they believed in.
This was where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were located, along with Assyria.
What was the Fertile Cresent?
When Hammurabi's code was created and established.
When was 1754 BCE
When the first war ever recorded in history took place.
When was 2700 BCE
This is the man who got eternal life from the great flood.
Who was Utnapishtim?
A person who writes
Who is a scribe?
These were the three main city states that were fighting for control near the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
Who were the Jaramo, Kish, and Ur people.
This code stated that if a woman shall neglect her husband, ruin their house, and is not innocent, then they shall throw her into the water.
What was code 243 in Hammurabi's code?
It was the first giant city made by the Babylonians. This was another name for it.
Where was Metropolis?