Vocab
The land in between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is Mesopotamia?
The first superhero.
Who was Gilgamesh?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
The first King to write laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
Stable food supply, social structure, government, religion, art, technology, and writing.
What are the 7 characteristics of a civilization?
To train an animal to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
Gilgamesh's partner who helped him slay the monster Humbaba, and passed from an illness.
Who was Enkidu?
a way to express creativity in many ways, paintings, music, etc.
What is art?
A tall carved object.
A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.
What is a siege?
What is Silt?
The goddess of love.
Who was Ishtar?
To show their beliefs and loyalty to the gods by doing human sacrifices, building many temples, and more.
What is their religious system?
The sun god of justice and King Hammurabi.
What is in the picture carving of the stele?
The earliest known completed alphabet using cuneiform writing.
What is the Ugaritic Alphabet?
The belief that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
The person who told Gilgamesh about a great flood that brought him internal life.
Who was Utnapishtim?
Having enough food to supply a city-state and to help them survive.
What is a stable food supply?
The prologue, the laws, epilogue.
What are the 3 parts of Hammurabi's code?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is an empire?
Told Gilgamesh to enjoy the simple things in life.
Who was the Innkepper Gilgamesh met on his journey?
The Kings who were thought were picked by gods. They directed people’s behavior and made life orderly.
What is the government?
What is happening in the picture carving?
An over 7ft tall stele with the first code of law written on it.
What is the Law Code Stele Of King Hammurabi?