Mesopotamia Vocabulary
To train a wild animal to be useful for humans.
What is domesticate?
Gilgamesh and Endiku slay this monster.
Who is Humbaba?
Hammurabi was king from 1792 B.C.E to this date.
What is 1750 B.C.E?
This invention was used as a drinking liquid and is made out of fermented barley with flavors like dates and wheat.
What is beer?
Sumer and this City-state was the first ever recorded war.
What is Elam?
The geographic area in between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, also known as the “land between two rivers".
What is Mesopotamia?
This girl falls in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
The Law Code Stele was made in this place.
What is the Kingdom of Babylonia (Iraq)
Mesopotamians used this invention to travel in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
What is sailing?
The Sumerians were the first people to invent and use this object that was pulled by animals.
What is the wagon?
A type of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
Ishtar asks her father to send this to punish Gilgamesh.
What is the bull of heaven?
This god was the god of the sun and justice.
Who is Shamash?
This invention helped the people in the city-states navigate where they were going, but weren't 100% accurate then.
What are maps?
Some Mesopotamian soldiers were the first to become this in ancient history.
What is enslaved?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
Gilgamesh was determined to find this after Endiku died.
What is eternal life?
The Stele was broken into this many parts.
What is 3 parts?
Images and cuneiform and other alphabetic systems made on tablets of stone and other matireals.
What is writing?
One theory is that Mesopotamian states fought over these 3 things.
What is crops, land, and animals?
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is a civilization?
Gilgamesh was told that he could live forever if he stayed awake for this many days and nights.
What is 7 days and nights?
The laws are around this many years old.
What is 4,000 years?
This object evolved from solid tree trunk discs and led chariots that gave military advantages.
What is the wheel?
Wagons were pulled by this wild animal.
What is a donkey?