Mesopotamia
A temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu fought and killed Humbaba here.
What is the Cedar Forest?
This ancient civilization invented toothpaste.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians? - It was made of rock salt, pepper, mint, and dried iris flowers.
He one of the most legendary historical figures, he was a heroic priest-king from the Sumerian city-state of Uruk
Who was Gilgamesh?
Civilizations in Ancient Egypt depended on this river for survival.
What is the Nile River?
Gilgamesh was created by these beings.
Who are the gods?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
What is the turkey? The Mayan people believed that they served as vessels of the gods
This was the writing system using in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This was the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt.
What are hieroglyphics?
After Gilgamesh rejects the goddess Ishtar, she sends this creature to attack the city.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
This is the body of water to the west of Mesopotamia.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This many people died during the construction of the Great Wall of China in the third century B.C.E.
What is 40,000 people? - Many of these workers were convicts and soldiers, and were buried within the wall itself.
This was an important invention created in Mesopotamia.
What is: the concept of time, math, the wheel, sailboats, maps or writing.
Herodotus said that this many people worked on the pyramid.
What is one hundred thousand men (at a time)?
The cleverest of the gods, Ea, tells this person or thing to build an ark to escape the flood.
What is the reed fence (near Utnapishtim)?
Mesopotamia is often referred to as this because of the shape of the area and its rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
Horse-riding nomadic herders in Central Asia invented this article of clothing.
What are pants? - The ancient wool trousers were unearthed in western China and carbon-dated to between the 13th-10th centuries B.C.E. They have straight-fitted legs and strings for fastening at the waist.
By 3000 B.C.E., Mesopotamia was firmly under the control of these people.
Who were the Sumerians?
The Pyramids at Giza have been standing there for around this many years.
What is five thousand years?
This is Utnapishtim's test for Gilgamesh to see if he will be granted eternal life.
These are the two types of location, according to the five themes of geography.
What are absolute and relative?
Pythagoras, creator of the Pythagorean theorem, was scared of this type of vegetable.
What are beans? - He claimed that fava beans contained the souls of the dead since they were flesh-like