Vocabulary
This was a Mesopotamian religious temple which had a shrine located at the top.
What was a ziggurat?
This was the first monster that Gilgamesh fought and defeated, and he did this with Enkidu.
What was Humbaba?
This was a decorative doorway used mostly in Babylonia.
What was the arch?
This person ruled Babylonia as a king and created the world's first set of rules, which was a "code".
Who was Hammurabi?
This civilization characteristic was important to make sure people didn't go hungry.
What was a stable food supply?
This was a belief in Mesopotamia that there were multiple gods.
What was polytheism?
The gods felt this way towards Gilgamesh after he had slain 2 powerful creatures and "proven" that he was as powerful as the gods themselves.
Why were the gods jealous of Gilgamesh?
These were used for farming and raking dirt in fields.
What were plows?
These people were executed if they built houses that came down and killed their owners.
How were builders punished?
These are paintings, architecture, and forms of expression.
What is art?
This place is an arc-shaped region in East Asia with rich soil.
What and where is the Fertile Crescent?
Gilgamesh was punished for killing something that was sent by the gods in revenge for his rejection of Ishtar.
What was the Bull of Heaven?
This script/type of language was invented and used by the Mesopotamians.
What was cuneiform?
This group of people were thrown in a river and drowned if they neglected their houses and husbands.
Why and how were women punished?
This kept people in order and made large decisions for the area it ruled.
What is government?
This method was used to water multiple crops easily and enabled large-scale farming to begin.
What is irrigation?
Gilgamesh wanted these 2 things by the end of the story. One of the things he just always wanted, like many people, because with it, everyone knows who you are and your name, but the other was because of Enkidu's death.
Why did Gilgamesh want eternal life and fame?
This was usually made out of wood and metal like iron, it was used for transportation of goods and people, and in wars, it transported weapons, archers, and infantry.
What was the wagon, and what was it used for?
If a man couldn't pay his debts, specific people in his family could be forced to work for 3 years.
What could happen to children and women?
This was the ranking of different people: the enslaved at the bottom, the farmers, merchants, workers, and similar people were in the middle, and the nobles, priests, and kings were at the top.
What is a social structure?
This is how a region or country used, sold, and traded goods to meet people's needs and wants.
Define economy.
Gilgamesh had a friend that he a monster with, and he was very close to this friend, who got very sick and died as punishment for killing another monster, which was sent by the gods, and for rejecting Ishtar.
Who was Enkidu?
The Mesopotamians invented this method which allowed them to be able to work with iron and other metals and make those metals into weapons, armor, and other useful tools.
What was metallurgy?
These people would jump in a river and try to survive it to prove that he was innocent.
What were accused people?
This was the system of people who prayed to God: in this, people created ziggurats and had ceremonies in this.
What is a religious system?