Vocabulary
One who writes
What is a scribe?
What people believe
What is religion?
Something that carries things
What is a wagon?
The creator of the first laws
Who is Hammurabi?
The hero in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Who is Gilgamesh?
To believe there is more than one god
What is polytheism?
to play instruments, draw, or paint
What is art?
Something used to calculate
What is mathematics?
The first laws
What is Hammurabi's code?
Humbaba
Who is the first monster Gilgamesh slayed?
The land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
Class based on jobs and their place in life
What is social structure?
Something used to transport water
What are irrigation systems?
What Hammurabi's code is carved on
What is a stele?
The first story that was written
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil
What is the fertile crescent?
A way to keep things down, to record things
What is written language?
Used to make shape metal
What is metallurgy?
Modern day Iraq
Where is Babylonia located
Enkidu
Who is Gilgamesh's servant?
the two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf
what are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
When a society has enough or more than enough food for the society
What is a stable food supply?
A round object that rolls
What is a wheel?
Something carved on the top of the stele of Hammurabi's code
What is a relief?
Utnapishtim
Who told Gilgamesh about the flood that brought eternal life?