Geography
Modern Day Country
What is Iraq?
Top of the social pyramid
Who is the King?
Allowed for quicker and easier transportation
What is the wheel?
Sumerian legend (epic) about a king
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is Land between the rivers?
People who sold and traded goods
What is a merchant?
Made of iron and pulled by oxen
What is the plow?
Ancient writing, that taught us the city-states were always fighting
What is cuneiform?
The other river in Mesopotamia besides the Tigris
What is the Euphrates?
A writer
What is a scribe?
Similar to Egyptian pyramids
What is a ziggurat?
Where the phrase "eye for an eye" comes from
What is the Code of Hammurabi?
Sumer was in this part of ancient Mesopotamia
What is south (southwest)?
Responsible for overseeing religious ceremonies
Who are the king and priests?
Mesopotamians worked with copper, tin, iron and..
What is gold?
The monster, in the cedar forest, who Gilgamesh fought
Who is Humbaba?
The mountains that bordered Mesopotamia to the east
What are the Zagros Mountains?
These women were taught to read and write
Who are noble women?
In ancient Mesopotamia, these were based on the cycle of the moon
What are calendars?
Another name for craftspeople
What is artisan?