Gods & Goddesses
Who is Enki?
Ziggurats have this many levels.
What is 2-7?
The area between these two rivers flooded once a year leaving silt behind which was good for farming.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
What is polytheism?
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on 12 tablets and told the story of Gilgamesh and this friend.
Who was Enkidu?
Gods and goddesses were believed to have these qualities.
What are immortality, human form, all-powerfulness, radiant auras?
The inside of a ziggurat was made of this material.
What is sun-dried brick.
This is the name for the place where a civilization starts somewhere in the world.
What is a cradle of civilization?
What are sickness, death, and weather? (Other answers may be acceptable)
Mesopotamians believed that the afterlife was a place of this.
What is gloom? (People believed that the souls of the dead went to the “land of no return,” a gloomy place between the earth’s crust and the ancient sea. No joy awaited souls there.)
The son of Enki who defeated Tiamat to become the head god of Babylon.
Who is Marduk?
The outside of a ziggurat was made of this material.
What is kiln-dried brick?
This mountain range is to the northeast of Mesopotamia.
What are the Zagros Mountains?
This is the name for a group of gods or deities.
What is a pantheon?
This word means "between the rivers."
What is Mesopotamia?
The number of minor gods in Mesopotamian religion.
What is thousands?
This was the purpose of a ziggurat.
What was to worship gods, give them a place to live, and build a bridge between the heavens and Earth.
These are 6 major cities in Mesopotamia.
What are Assur, Sumer, Babylon, Ur, Kish and Lagash.
This was a ceremony or set of steps that people would follow to honor their gods.
What is a ritual?
An independent city with its own surrounding territory is called this.
What is a city-state?
The god of the moon.
Who is Nanna?
These were the only people allowed in the top temple of a ziggurat.
Who are priests?
This body of water is to the southeast of Mesopotamia and is the location that the 2 major rivers flow into.
What is the Persian Gulf?
Incense and food are two examples of these.
What are offerings?
In the creation story, Enki told his son to do this.
What is defeat Tiamat?