Vocabulary
People growing crops and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
He is the main character in the story Gilgamesh.
Who is Gilgamesh?
This is used on the bottoms of carts and wagons to make things easy to move.
What is the wheel?
Sumer was located in this place, and this place was inside of the Fertile Crescent.
Where was Mesopotamia?
A civilization needs to have these to be considered a civilization.
What are characteristics?
This place is in the middle of Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.
Where is Mesopotamia?
Gilgamesh decided to kill the monster, Humbaba for this reason.
What is being famous?
This was used to help farmers grow crops when it was dry.
What is irragration?
The Rivers where people in Mesopotamia got water.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
There is this number of characteristics.
What is 7 characteristics?
Farmers used this to get water for their farms during dry seasons.
What is irrigation?
Gilgamesh wants this when Enkidu dies.
What is eternal life?
Gilgamesh was written in this language.
What is cuneiform?
Mesopotamia consisted of many of these, which were fighting a lot.
What are city-states?
This characteristic makes laws and keeps order.
What is the government?
This person made a code with strict laws and belived he was chosen by the gods.
Who was Hammuarabi?
Ishtar asked her dad to send this to kill Gilgamesh after he rejected her?
What is the Bull of Heaven?
This invention helped Sumer build buildings easier and stronger.
What are bricks?
This part of the land where Mesopotamia was located was especially fertile, allowing them to grow crops.
What is the Fertile Cresent?
This characteristic sorts people into different classes.
What are social classes?
This person would be an craftsperson.
What is an artisan?
Gilgamesh met what person when he was searching for eternal life that to him to enjoy simple things in life?
Who was the innkeeper?
This invention allowed for Gilgamesh to be created, along with cuneiform and made other languages.
What is writing and/or literature?
This is the biggest and most city in Mesopotamia, and included the hanging gardens.
Where was Babylonia?
This happens when a civilization has enough food for everyone, and extra to store, or trade.
What is a stable food supply?