I can do hard things.
This festival happens when a pharaoh celebrates 30 years on the throne.
What is the Sed Festival?
This country is located in west Asia.
What is Mesopotamia?
This Mesopotamian hero was seeking the secret to eternal life.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is the home of the Sumerians.
What is Sumer?
These rivers surround Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
Mesopotamian cities that were independent and ruled by its own king.
What are city-states?
This group of people invaded Mesopotamia around 2270 B.C.
Who are the Akkadians?
This is the animal that slithered out of the weeds and ate at Gilgamesh's plant.
What is a snake?
This group of people were the first to build sailboats, domesticate animals and develop irrigation.
Who are the Sumerians?
These structures were at the center of Mesopotamian cities and dedicated as temples to the city's gods.
This king was the first ruler to unite the cities of Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
Hammurabi was the king of this city.
What is Babylon?
This form of writing was invented by merchants.
What is cuneiform?
This word means "wedge shaped."
What is cuneiform?
This man was the King of Babylon and issued an important law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
Anen's father
Who is Merniptah?
This person wrote the first major law code.
Who is Hammurabi?
This is a poem or story about the deeds of a great hero.
What is an epic?
A very special stone that was blue and polished brightly. Anen and his father traveled far to find it.
What is the lapis lazuli?
The name of the river that Merniptah and Anen traveled on a trading expedition looking for the lapis lazuli.
What is the Nile River?