Vocab
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
They want to be famous.
Who is Gilgamesh?
Two regions that would fight over water.
What is Kish and Ur?
An invention that would help carry many things from place to place.
What is the wheel?
A statue that is 4,000 years old.
What is Hammurabi's code?
The way a region or country uses resources to produce and sell or trade goods and services to meet people’s needs and wants.
What is encnomy?
Gilgamesh's friend who helps slay the monster, Humbaba.
Who is Enkidu?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
A drink that people back then made when they did not have water.
What is beer?
The language that is all around the statue.
What is cuneiform?
A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is civilization?
She falls in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
A region where there were city states.
What is Sumer?
A piece of paper that would tell directions.
What is a map? (cartography)
The person on the left corner on the statue.
Who is the king?
A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.
What is seige?
Gilgamesh meets someone who told him about a great flood.
Who is Utnapishtim?
Something that the regions would fight over.
What is water?
A way of transportation that was on water.
What is a sail boat?
The person on the right in the chair.
What is the god?
The belief that there are many gods.
What is Polytheism?
Gilgamesh met someone that told him to enjoy simple things in life.
Who is an innkeeper?
An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top.
What is a ziggurat?
Something that would make walls/hold them together.
What is bricks?
The thing that is under the gods feet.
What is mountains?