Vocab
The process of taming an animal and keeping it as a pet or on a farm.
What is domestication?
This invention helped people supply land with water.
What is Irrigation?
The governing body that made very important decisions in a nation,state or community.
What is the government?
This person fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Uruk?
Over time humans learned how to do this to their environment.
What is control?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
These platforms were made of mud and had a shrine on top.
What is a Ziggurat?
A tool or invention used to help people do practical things.
What is technology?
This person wanted to be famous.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Some of the world’s earliest farmers lived in this place.
What is Sumer?
The belief that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
The Sumerians dug this outside city walls to help prevent enemies from entering.
What is moats?
How people react to each other considering this explanatory concept.
What is social structure?
This person got punished by the gods for being famous.
Who is Enkidu?
This empire lasted for three centuries.
What is the Assyrians?
Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a tribute?
This invention helped people move things quickly and well.
What is the chariot?
The evolution and progression of artistic styles, techniques, and themes over time, reflecting changes in culture, society, and individual expression.
What is developed art and culture?
This idea was tried by Gilgimesh to be immortal after he realized floods won't work.
What is staying awake for seven days and seven nights?
This major event happened between the Sumer and Elam.
What was the first recorded war?
An arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
While other cultures in the Middle East gathered wool and used it to weave fabric for clothing, the Sumerians were the first to do it on an industrial scale.
What is a textile mill?
The similarity of all these, Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian (together sometimes known as 'Akkadian'), Amorite, and - later - Aramaic.
What is written language?
In the story of Gilgamesh, this man told Gilgamesh how he got immortal from a flood.
Who is Utnapishtim?
These rivers empty in Lake Al-Ḥammār.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates river empty?