Vocab
A military blockade or attack on a city to force it to surrender.
What is a siege?
Arts, music, and creative forms of expression.
What are creative arts?
The two rivers that give Mesopotamia water supply.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
The name of the god who loved Gilgamesh.
Who was Ishtar?
The sun god and god of Justice.
What was Shamash?
The belief that there are many gods
What is polytheism?
People who have a higher status than others; such as priests, kings, and nobles.
What is a government?
The crescent shaped area in Mesopotamia that has very rich soil.
What is the fertile crescent?
The best friend of Gilgamesh who died from being sick.
Who was Enkidu?
The investiture of Hammurabi.
What was the prologue of Hammurabi's stele called?
The wedge shaped characters that Sumerians used
What is Cuneiform?
the use of tools for making human life easier, some examples are the arch and the wheel used for carts and chariots in the army.
What is technology?
The mountains where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers start.
Where are the Taurus mountains?
Gilgamesh slayed this monster.
Who was Humbaba?
A tall carved ancient object.
What is a stele?
Taming an animal to be of better use to humans to make their life easier.
What does it mean to domesticate?
The multiple levels of hierarchy. These included the lower and middle classes such as slaves, laborers, farmers, merchants, and scribes. The highest class included priests, kings, nobles, and government officials.
What is social structure?
The gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty out.
What is the Persian gulf?
The name of the hometown of Gilgamesh.
What was Uruk?
We can tell that he's a god because of the special horned crown he wears.
How can we tell that the man is a god?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple that had stairs on each side and a shrine at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
Sumerians made Cuneiform around 3300 BCE. Cuneiform was based off of pictograph.
What is written language?
The peninsula next to the Fertile crescent.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
This person told Gilgamesh about the flood that gave him eternal life.
Who was Utnapishtim?
The language that Hammurabi's stele was written in.
What was Akkadian/Cuneiform?