Food
The most important Mesopotamian crop.
What is a flood?
The god of the sun and justice.
Who is Shamash?
The people that conquered and unified Mesopotamia for the first time.
Who are the Akkadians?
The King with a mythical best friend.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The primary cause of blindness among Mesopotamians.
What is Vitamin A deficiency?
The faster river in Mesopotamia.
Goddess of war and desire.
Who is Inana?
The metal in question in the world's oldest negative review.
What is copper?
The King that codified the first set of written laws.
Who is Hammurabi?
Artificial waterways used for irrigation.
What are canals?
The longer river in Mesopotamia.
God of Wisdom and Writing
Who is Nabu?
The alphabet used by Mesopotamians.
What is cuneiform?
High Priestess of 40 years.
Who is Enheduanna?
Sugary fruit grown in Mesopotamia.
What are dates?
Artificial embankments (hills) to prevent high water from flooding.
What are levees?
Father of the gods.
Who is Anu?
The City Gilgamesh was king of.
The king that conquered and unified Mesopotamia.
Who is Sargon?
Most common meat eaten in ancient Mesopotamia.
What is mutton (sheep)?
The mountain range Northeast of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros mountains?
Patron god of the Assyrians.
Who is Assur?
The oldest recorded language in Mesopotamia.
What is Sumerian?
Enheduanna's nephew.
Who is Naram-Sin?