The Fertile Crescent
The Land Between Two Rivers
What is Mesopotamia
Consists of a large city surrounded by a wall
What is city-state
Hammurabi ruled this empire
What is Babylon!
This long poem type was centered around a hero and detailed a quest.
What is an Epic
Wedge-shaped writing
What is Cuneiform
The fertile crescent was defined by these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates
Temples dedicated to a god or goddess in the center city-states
What is Ziggurat
Hammurabi's code was etched into stone steel made of
What is Basalt!
Gilgamesh ruled this city-state
What is Uruk!
Cuneiform was written on this material.
What is Clay
The first known civilization in Mesopotamia
What is Sumer
Worshiping many gods or goddesses
What is polytheistic!
Babylonians lived under this type of rule
What is a Theocracy!
Gilgamesh sought this
What is Immortality!
The heat source for drying the cuneiform tablets
What is the Sun
The demise of the fertile crescent :(
What are irrigation systems
Members of the highest group in the Summerian society cast system
Who are Nobles and Clergy
The punishment for theft
What is death
I am Gil's sidekick but were first enemies.
Who is Enkidu
Cuneiform developed out of a need to record sales of goods and history, people who made the records were called ________________.
What is Scribe!
The civilizations of Sumeria, Assyria, Akkadia, and ________ flourished in Mesopotamia!
What is Babylon!
Sumerians developed these systems by using levees and canals.
What is Irrigation
This monumental idea, that originated in the Hammurabian code, has inspired numerous codes of law throughout the world.
What is "Eye for an Eye"
The Epic of Gilgamesh inspired these famous Greek epics!
The sharpened stylus that created deep grooves in the clay.
What is a Reed