The Land
Moon-shaped landform from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This friend of Gilgamesh was sent by the gods to punish him for being cruel.
Who was Enkidu?
Who created the first set of laws?
Hammurabi
This is the worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
People that move from place to place to kill large animals and forage for food
What are Hunter-Gatherers?
Meaning of Mesopotamia
What is the name of the land between two rivers?
A great tragedy changed Gilgamesh.
What is the death of Enkidu?
This was the largest building in most Sumerian cities/states made of mud bricks, and was built high to connect to the heavens. It was the temple and the house of god.
What is a ziggurat?
A term for the "taming" of wild plants for people to grow food. (other than farming or agriculture)
What is the DOMESTICATION of plants?
Another word for farming
What is agriculture?
Two rivers of Mesopotamia
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Gilgamesh is a mighty ruler and wins many battles against monsters, but he is truly afraid of one thing.
What is death/dying?
The writing of Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
The growth of extra food
What is surplus?
The gods flooded the world and only saved Utna and his family for this reason.
What is humans were too loud while the gods were trying to sleep?
The people of Mesopotamia used reservoirs, canals, ditches, and even gates to save water during rainy seasons to water crops when the weather was dry. This manipulation of water from natural sources to use on crops is called...
What is irrigation?
Gilgamesh goes on a long journey to find Utnapatish (Utna) who he hopes can give him some advice on eternal life because of Utna's experiences.
What is the only human and family to survive the flood?
Mesopotamians did not use paper or tree trunks for writing, but rather this...
What are clay tablets?
The "taming" of wild animals as farm animals for meat, eggs, skins, and beasts of burden.
What is the domestication or husbandry of animals?
Which two things stabilized Hammurabi's kingdom?
What are laws and taxes?
Rich nutritious soil from under the rivers that overflowed their banks during the floods, leaving this on the fields
What is silt?
There is a great conflict between two types of groups symbolizing the old ways of doing things and the new, "civilized" way of doing things.
What is the country/forest/wilderness symbolized by Enkidu, and the city, symbolized by Gilgamesh.
Name 3 "firsts" in Mesopotamia.
What are the wheel, the plow, cities, city-states, taxes, empires, writing, and the conflict between the city and the wilderness/country?
Because of surplus food, not everyone had to be a farmer. Name the two terms for the idea of different people having many different jobs.
What is the Division of Labor or Specialization?
Name one invention that has to do with the tracking of time/dates.
What are sundials, 60-second minute, and the calendar?