Gilgamesh
A friend of Gilgamesh who helped him slay a beast.
Who is Enkidu?
It is the part of land in Mesopotamia that has rich soil.
What is the fertile crescent?
A form of calculation of numbers.
What is math?
A small independent country that has it's own laws and government.
What is a city-state?
It is the practice of believing in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
The love god who fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
The area in-between the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
The object that Mesopotamians had created that rolls when you push it with an object attached to it; which, made it easier to transport people or goods when it is attached to a cart.
What are wheels?
An abundance of food that is enough for the ruler and the citizens (Also is a characteristic of a civilization).
What is a stable food supply?
A act of killing or offering crops, people or\and other animals to gods.
What are sacrifices?
A beast that Gilgamesh (And his friend) had killed.
Who is the monster Humbaba?
These two rivers are what made the fertile crescent fertile.
What are the Euphrates and Tigris rivers?
Usually has two wheels and is usually pulled by a horse, or a different animal.
What is a chariot?
A large group of states in an area that is under one ruler.
What is an empire?
They were believed to walk down the steps of a Mesopotamian temple to enter the mortal world.
What are gods?
Since Gilgamesh had rejected a girl who loved him she had asked her father to send it to him to kill him.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
The mountains that had created the two rivers in Mesopotamia.
What are the Taurus mountains?
They were made by using mud, or clay and were used for building homes in civilizations.
What are bricks?
Particles of fine rock usually found in a river.
What is Silt?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple built for praying and worshiping gods.
What is a Ziggurat?
He had told Gilgamesh that there was a way to get eternal life from a great flood.
Who is Utnapishtim?
These mountains are partially included the fertile crescent but some of these mountains are not included in the fertile crescent.
What are the Zagros mountains?
They where the first two recorded city-states to go to war.
What is Sumer and Elam?
A symbol that represents and object.
What is a pictograph?
They were believed to come from gods.
Where did Kings come from?