Gilgamesh
This person defeated the monster Humbaba.
Who was Gilgamesh?
This is to train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
This mountain range is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin.
What is the Taurus Mountain range?
The Babylonians built the first giant planned city. This is another word for that.
What is a Metropolis?
This museum houses Hammurabi's code.
What is the Louve?
This person fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who was Ishtar?
This is a way to supply land with water.
What is irrigation?
This is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty.
What is the Persian Gulf?
This city-state was the first to have double and triple walls around it.
What is Babylon?
This is the age of Hammurabi's code.
What is 4,000 years old?
This was supposed to be Gilgamesh's punishment for rejecting Ishtar.
What was the Bull of Heaven?
This is wealth sent from one county or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.
What is a tribute?
This is an arc-shaped region in southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
This Babylonian king was the first to write a code of laws.
Who was King Hammurabi?
This is the God of justice.
Who is Shamash?
This person became very ill and died after Gilgamesh killed the Bull of Heaven.
Who was Enkidu?
These are fine particles of rock.
What is Silt?
This land is known as the "land between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
This city-state is in the modern day nation of Iraq and was very powerful.
What was Babylon?
This is the language Hammurabi's code was written in.
What is Akkadian?
After his friend dies, Gilgamesh goes in search for this.
What is eternal life?
This is the belief that there are many gods.
What is polytheism?
This river runs from the Mediterranean sea, through some of the fertile crescent, and into Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This time was when Babylon was the most populated.
What was the Second Millennium BCE?
This is what Hammurabi's code is written on.
What is a stele?