Characteristics of Civilization
This is a person or a group who makes enforce laws to create order.
What is Government?
This person falls in love with Gilgamesh.
What is Ishtar?
This is the business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
A builder builds a house that is not sturdy enough then he shall be put to death.
What is code 229?
These simple building blocks continued to be used for thousands of years, even though they limited the size and strength of their buildings.
What is bricks?
These are ways to express feelings and creatively.
What is Art?
This person is a friend to Gilgamesh.
What is Enkidu?
This is a way to supply land with water.
What is irrigation?
A man is in debt and has to sell his family to pay off his debt.
What is code 117?
This helped people to be entertained.
What is board games?
These inventions and tools help improve peoples lives.
What is Technology?
This animal was going to attack Gilgamesh.
What is a bull?
This is a place in the southern Mesopotamia where cities first appeared.
What is sumer?
If a women leaves her husband she shall be thrown in the water.
What is code 143?
Mesopotamians were responsible for introducing and developing the written word. Cuneiform, which literally means 'wedge shape' and refers to the tools used to write letters onto the writing surface.
What is writing and literature?
This is a way to write things down and keep a record.
What is Written language?
When Gilgamesh was traveling he met a person that told him to enjoy simple things in life.
What is an innkeeper?
This is the use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is technology?
If anyone brings an accusation against a man and the accused goes to the river and leaps and sinks into it, his accuser will take his house.
What is code 2?
A special oven used to bake clay bricks at very high temperatures to make them stronger and more durable.
What is a kiln?
These are beliefs or a form of worship that tries to answer questions about human existence.
What is Religion?
This person told Gilgamesh about the great flood that brought _____ eternal life.
What is Utnapishtim?
This is an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is fertile crescent?
It would take a family this many years to be given their freedom back after working in the house of their master to work off their debt.
What is 4 years?
The science and art of making maps to show locations, distances, and geographical features.
What is cartography?