People
Who was the first story ever written about?
Gilgamesh
What was the first city
Mesopotamia
what are the three inventions we still use
Time, calendar, and wheel
What is the famous parable we still say from the code?
An eye for an eye
What was writing called
Cuneiform
Gilgamesh was rumored to be
Half man half God
What was the first story ever written
Epic of Gilgamesh
What helped people move carts?
The wheel
If a son should strike his father,...
his hands shall be cut off
what did they write on
clay
Who wrote the first laws
Hammurabi
What was the first written language
Cuniform
What base 12 system do we still use today
The calendar
If a man put out the eye of another man,...
his eye shall be put out
what did they write with
reeds
who was in stories and an actual ruler
Gilgamesh
What were the first laws ever written
The code of Hammurabi
What is in base 60 that we use today
Telling Time
If a builder builds a house for someone and that house collapses killing them, ...
then the builder shall be put to death.
what was the first story ever written
Epic of Gilgamesh
Bonus: what was the name of the person in the Epic of Gilgamesh that he was to battle
Enkidu
Bonus: Name the two rivers
Tigris & Euphrates Rivers
Bonus: what else did they dabble in
medicine and astronomy
If any man should strike a man of higher rank, ...
he shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip
Bonus: where are the laws kept today