Gilgamesh
Fun facts
Babylonia
Vocabulary words
Sumer
100

This hero wants to be famous.

Who is Gilgamesh?

100

This is what beer was used for.

What is saving water?

100

He wrote the Babylonia laws.

Who is King Hammurabi?

100

The geographic area between the Tigris and Euphrates river.

Where is Mesopotamia?

100

They created the worlds first civilization.

Who is the Sumerians? 

200

Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay this monster.

Who is Humbaba?

200

They fought back to win their independence.

Who is Assyrians?

200

Hammmurabi's code was created.

When was 1754 BCE?

200

This is the way to supply land with water.

What is irrigation?

200

The first people to use the battle wagons in war.

Who was the Sumerians?

300

She falls in love with Gilgamesh.

Who is Ishtar?

300

The first king.

 Who was Saffron of Akkad?

300

Shamash is the god in the stele.

Who is the god of justice?

300

The person that makes money by selling goods.

What is a merchant?

300

They were the first captured in war and they were some of the first enslaved people in ancient history.

Who are the Mesopotamia Soldiers?

400

They believed that Gilgamesh and Enkidu had the power of gods.

Who is the gods?

400

They fought over crops, animals, or land.

Who is the Mesopotamian states?

400

The god carved in the stele.

Who is Shamash?

400

The small particles of a rock.

What is silt?

400

The rivers located in southern Iraq.

Where was the Tigris and Euphrates river located?

500

He tried in many different ways to gain eternal life.

Who is Gilgamesh?

500

They were pulled by wild donkeys, these wagons carried archers, soldiers, generals and weapons to the battlefield.

What was the wagons used for?

500

 This code on Hammurabi's code says if the woman is not innocent, leaves her husband, ruins her house, neglecting her husband, they shall throw that woman into the water.

What is code 143 on Hammurabi's code?

500

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

What is tribute?

500

This invention was a vital tool for farming.

What is the plow?