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The meaning of the name Mesopotamia.
What is The Land Between Two Rivers?
This crowded form of religion was the standard of many ancient religions.
What is polytheism?
This style of holy government was first found in early Sumerian city-states.
What is theocracy?
The first known written language in the ancient world.
What is cuneiform?
The style of ancient poem focused on the life and adventures of a single hero.
What is an epic?
The toenail-shaped area of land that provided a life to the ancient world.
The top of this holy structure was the home for Sumerian city-states' patron deity.
What is a ziggurat?
The leader of the Babylonian Empire who unified his city-states under a single code of laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
This was the material that most Mesopotamian buildings and artifacts were built out of.
The main character of the longest known piece of Mesopotamian literature.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The reason that there was fertile soil in Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers?
The Sumerian afterlife was believed to be created with this one material.
What is dust?
Sumerian kings who wanted to keep the crown "in the family" formed this style of royal succession.
What is a dynasty?
One of the inventions that Sumerians were most known for creating.
What is the wheel, the sail, or arithmetic?
This demon of the cedar forest was defeated by a demi-god king and his companions in a Mesopotamian poem.
Who is Humbaba?
The most dangerous environmental challenge that the early Mesopotamians faced.
This group of people was at the very bottom of the Mesopotamian social structure.
What are slaves?
This Akkadian emperor conquered all of Sumer, until his descendants lost control of their vast empire.
Who is Sargon of Akkad?
The basic architectural shape that ancient Mesopotamians realized was needed to build massive stable structures.
What is a pyramid or triangle?
The beast-man made of clay who was created to humble and befriend the prideful king of Uruk.
Who is Enkidu?
One of the early Mesopotamian settlers solutions to the three major environmental challenges.
What is irrigation, city walls, or trade networks?
The massive stepped-temples at the center of Sumerian city-states were built of of this material.
What are sun-dried clay bricks?
Hammurabi's Code helped to ensure justice in Babylonian society, except between these groups of people.
What are different social classes? (ex. Rich & poor, Priest & laborers, etc.)
This style of art was the most commonly found type of artifact in Mesopotamia.
What is pottery?
The reason that Gilgamesh went on many dangerous adventures in his lifetime.
What is the desire to be famous for eternity?