Sumer
The ancient Sumerians used this wedge shaped writing invented in 3300 B.C.E.
What is Cuneiform?
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is Domestication?
Who Mesopotamia believed to choose kings.
Who are gods?
The creator of the laws of Babylonia.
Who is king Hammurabi?
Gilgamesh stayed awake for 7 days for something he craved.
What is eternal life?
A form of transportation that was pulled by horses.
What is a chariot?
The two largest river in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris River and Euphrates River?
Having this allows you to stay in the same location and have a stable job.
Whats stable food supply?
A city that has triple walls and is safe from the inside.
What is a Metropolis?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu slayed the monster.
Who is Humbaba?
It carried weapons and soldiers into the battle field.
What is a wagon?
A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is an empire?
Religious people built these to honor and show devotion to the gods.
What are ziggurats?
The first laws written.
What is Hammurabi's code?
Gilgamesh rejected his lover and she goes to heaven in a furious rage.
Who is Ishtar?
The First War ever fought was in 2700 B.C.E was involved with two places.
What is Sumer and Elam?
an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
What is a Fertile Crescent
Sumerians created this as forms of expression.
What is art?
The Babylonian's conquered this city state.
What is Assyria?
The animal that was sent to kill Gilgamesh.
What is the bull of heaven?
Farmers created a system to supply their fields with water.
What is irrigation?
Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a Tribute?
There are 4 higher classes than upper, middle, and lower class.
What are Priests, Kings, Nobles and government officials?
This had all the written laws on it by Hammurabi.
Gilgamesh met someone who told him about a great flood that brought him eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?