Vocabulary
To train a wild animal to be useful for humans.
What is domestication?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
It was used to ready the soil for crops.
What is the plow?
Gilgamesh's friend who got ill and died.
Who is Enkidu?
First empire to make iron weapons, and body armor.
What is Assyria?
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin here.
What are the Taurus Mountains?
Writing used to track sales in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This woman got rejected by Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
First empire to build massive double and triple walls to protect themselves.
What is Babylonia?
A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.
What is a siege?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow into here.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Used to drive a team of animals, and also used as
transportation.
What is the chariot?
This was sent to punish Gilgamesh.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
When Sumerian soldiers were captured, this would happen to them.
What is to become enslaved?
A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is an empire?
Definition of, "Mesopotamia".
What is the land between the rivers?
Art made with copper.
What is metallurgy?
The monster that Gilgamesh and Enkidu slayed.
What is Humbaba?
This was the time length of the Assyrian empire.
What is over 300 centuries?
The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants.
What is economy?
This is how old ago some cities along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were found.
What is 5,000 years?
Sumer and Elam were the first to engage in this.
What is war?
This person told Gilgamesh about a great flood that brought him eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?
Hammurabi was the first leader to do this.
What is a code of laws?