Sumer
Vocabulary
Characteristics
Babylonia
Gilgamesh
100

The ancient Sumerians used this wedge shaped writing invented in 3300 B.C.E.

What is Cuneiform?

100

 To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.

What is Domestication?

100

Who Mesopotamia believed to choose kings.

Who are gods?

100

The creator of the laws of Babylonia.

Who is king Hammurabi?

100

Gilgamesh stayed awake for 7 days for something he craved.

What is eternal life?

200

A form of transportation that was pulled by horses.

What is a chariot?

200

The two largest river in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

What are the Tigris River and Euphrates River?

200

Having this allows you to stay in the same location and have a stable job.

Whats stable food supply?

200

A city that has triple walls and is safe from the inside.

What is a Metropolis?

200

Gilgamesh and Enkidu slayed the monster.

Who is Humbaba?

300

It carried weapons and soldiers into the battle field.

What is a wagon?

300

A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.

What is an empire?

300

Religious people built these to honor and show devotion to the gods.

What are ziggurats?

300

The first laws written.

What is Hammurabi's code?

300

Gilgamesh rejected his lover and she goes to heaven in a furious rage.

Who is Ishtar?

400

The First War ever fought was in 2700 B.C.E was involved with two places.

What is Sumer and Elam?

400

an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil

What is a Fertile Crescent

400

Sumerians created this as forms of expression.

What is art?

400

The Babylonian's conquered this city state.

What is Assyria?

400

The animal that was sent to kill Gilgamesh.

What is the bull of heaven?

500

Farmers created a system to supply their fields with water.

What is irrigation?

500

Wealth sent from one country or ruler to another as a sign that the other is superior.

What is a Tribute?

500

There are 4 higher classes than upper, middle, and lower class.

What are Priests, Kings, Nobles and government officials?

500

This had all the written laws on it by Hammurabi.

What is Hammurabi's stele?
500

Gilgamesh met someone who told him about a great flood that brought him eternal life.

Who is Utnapishtim?