Tower of Babel
Civilizations around Euphrates and Tigris
Sargon the Great
Famous library
gods of Mesopotamia
100

This is the ancient name for Babylon, the city in which the people built the Tower of Babel.

What is Shinar?

100

These are two reasons why people developed near rivers.

What are to water crops and to transport goods.
100

This is the name of the first emperor of Mesopotamia.

What is Sargon the Great?

100

This is the famous ancient library which had records of the rule of Sargon.

What is the Library of Ashurbanipal?

100

This is what the Enuma Elish is.


What is ancient myths of Mesopotamia.

200

This is why building this tower was sinful.

The people wanted to make a name for themselves.

200

This is what Mesopotamia means.

What is Land Between Rivers

200

This is the Biblical account that Sargon mirrors, concerning after his birth. 

What is Moses in the bulrushes as a baby.

200

In this library, there were no books, no paper. This is what kind of material on which the books were recorded.

What is clay.

200

This is what is different between the creator gods of ancient Mesopotamia and our one, true God. 

What is there were two creator gods, and all other gods were created by those two gods.

300

This is the judgment God enacted to punish the wicked people.

What is confuse the language into many languages.

300

This is the name of the oldest civilization that developed around the Euphrates and the Tigris.

What is the Sumerians.

300

This is a job that Sargon had before he became emperor. 

What is cupbearer to the king of Kush.

300

This is the kind of tool ancient Mesopotamians used to write. 

What is a reed stylus?

300

This is a part of the myths that reveals that their gods were petty and selfish.

What is when one god (Apsu) decides to kill all the young gods because they are being too noisy, and he wants his sleep.

400

This is how the plans of man and the plans of God differ.

What is only God has the power to make and to complete His plans.

400

This term means a Sumerian government over little kingdoms built around cities.  

What is city-state?

400

This is why Sargon built big projects.

What is to make the lives of his people easier.

400

This is the language found in the recordings of the ancient library.

What is cuneiform?

400
This is how the sea god, Marduk, kills the thick-skinned, scaly goddess of the sea, Tiamat.

What is by holding her mouth open and thrusting an arrow down her mouth.

500

This is what the Hebrew word, Babel, means.

What is "confusion."

500

Other than the Sumerians, this is the name of another civilization in the Mesopotamian area.

What is the Akkadian civilization?

500

These are two of the four accomplishments that Sargon did for his people with the people's taxes and their labor.

What is Sargon built (1) canals and dikes (2) solid roads (3) post offices  (4) system of weights and measures to make trade fairer.

500

This is how the linguists learned to translate the new language found in the special ancient library.

What is the Behistun Inscription, which had three different languages, including the language found in the ancient library.

500

This is why the greater gods created mankind, the human race.

What is the lesser gods were tired of raising crops for the greater gods to eat. They wanted a break, and the greater gods created the human race to do these menial tasks.

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