A set of laws written on a stele that in which the relationship between crimes and punishments can be described as "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
What is Hammurabi's Code?
100
The story in which a Sumerian king befriends a man-beast named Enkidu and tries to find immortality.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
100
A crop that Mesopotamians had a surplus of that was used for trade.
What is barley?
100
When Sumerians made offerings to certain beings whom they believed protected them and their cities, it illustrated this value.
What is respecting the gods?
200
The Sumerian middle class who lived inside the city, made up primarily of skilled workers.
What is the Mushkinu?
200
Men and women worth this type of art with gold and precious stones on it.
What is jewelry?
200
Mesopotamians relied on this for farming.
What is water and fertile land?
200
In tablet three of the epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamest's need to get permission from a certain group of people in order to begin his journey to defeat Humbaba the terrible shows this value.
What is respecting elders?
300
The most important priest in a city who ruled the city state.
What is the king?
300
This fragile material was used for making beads, tiny vases and bottles.
What is glass?
300
This material was used to make most clothes in Mesopotamia.
What is wool?
300
In tablet 10 of the epic of Gilgamesh, the tavern keeper, Siduri, agreeing to help Gilgamesh in his journey to find immortality, portrays this value.
What is hospitality?
400
The 38th king of ancient Sumer who was also the main character of a famous epic.
Who is Gilgamesh?
400
Sumerians wrote stories and riddles on these.
What are clay tablets?
400
This gender wore kilts covering their bodies from waist to knee.
Who are men?
400
In the epic of Gilgamesh, when Gilgamesh attempts to bring Enkidu back from the dead, but is ultimately unsuccessful, provides an example of these two themes or values.
What is accepting mortality and the importance of friendship?
500
In 2004 BCE, the Sumerians were taken over by this group of people.
Who are the Elamites?
500
Most people in ancient Mesopotamia could not communicate in these two ways.
What are reading and writing?
500
Most Mesopotamian houses and structures were made from these.
What are mud bricks?
500
Gilgamesh's victory over Humbaba the terrible, the wild guardian of the cedar forest, made this theme evident.