Geography
"Mesopotamia" translates to this in Greek.
What is "the land between the rivers"?
This era spanned more years.
What is the paleolithic age?
Importance of the Code of Hammurabi.
What is the first set of written laws?
Importance of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What is the first known piece of literature?
Form of writing created in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
Modern day country where Mesopotamia was located at.
What is Iraq?
Another name for hunter-gatherers.
What are nomads?
Empire Hammurabi ruled over.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
Gilgamesh's friend.
Who is Enkidu?
Trained writers.
What are scribes?
Two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
What is agriculture?
Phrase associated with the Code of Hammurabi.
What is "an eye for an eye"?
What Gilgamesh goes on a quest for to obtain.
What is immortality?
Temple found in the middle of a city-state.
What is a ziggurat?
Farming on a regular basis.
What is systematic agriculture?
Long period of extreme cold during the Paleolithic Age.
What is the Ice Age?
Punishment for a boy slapping his father.
What is cutting off their hands?
Lesson Gilgamesh learns in the end.
What is learning that his legacy will live on forever?
Reason why the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built.
What is to please the king's wife, who was homesick of her mountainous homeland?
C-shaped region where all civilization is believed to of began.
What is the fertile crescent?
Warm discovery during the Paleolithic Age.
What is fire?
God of Justice who gave Hammurabi the laws.
Who is Shamash?
What the Epic of Gilgamesh was discovered on.
What are 12 clay tablets?
Belief in more than one god.
What is polytheism?