Geography
What continent was Mesopotamia in?
Asia
The pyramid-shaped diagram with priests and kings at the top and slaves and merchants toward the bottom is called...
The social class system
What city is Gilgamesh the king of in our text?
Uruk
"Before Christ"
BC
10 years, 100 years, 1000 years
What modern-day country is located where Mesopotamia was located?
Iraq
False. Merchants would often sell the work of artisans because the artisans were busy!
What two objects does Gilgamesh dream about in the beginning of the story?
A meteor and an axe
What does "AD" stand for?
Anno Domini
How many years passed between 1000 BCE and 2026?
3026
Name the kind of physical feature that make the northern and southern boundaries of Mesopotamia.
Rivers
How many years ago (to the nearest 1000th year) did the Mesopotamian Civilization begin?
around 5,000 years ago
Ishtar had many husbands/lovers before she set her eyes on Gilgamesh. Name three animals that Ishtar turned her old boyfriends into.
A wolf, a horse, and a mole. (Bird OK, too.)
"BCE" and "CE" meaining
Before Common Era; Common Era
How many years passed between 1095 BCE and 2010 CE?
3105
What does the word "Mesopotamia" mean?
Between two rivers
The Mesopotamians believed in many gods, such as Enlil, Ea, and Shamash. What kind of belief system is this?
Polytheistic
What object does Gilgamesh have made for Enkidu so the gods won't kill him?
A golden statue that he offers to Shamash
He put the events on a __________________ to show them in ________________ order, the order in which they happened.
timeline; chronological
How many years passed between 10,356 BCE and 900 CE?
11,256 years (right?)
What body of salt water is closest to Mesopotamia?
The Persian Gulf OR The Mediterranean Sea
The "father god" of the Mesopotamian pantheon.
Anu
What story is told on the wall frieze that Gilgamesh "grabs his mother by the wrist" and drags her through the palace courtyard to look at? The one he looked at since he was a child?
The story of the man who built an ark to save humanity from the great flood. The gods granted him immortality as a reward.
What is another name for a "blob" of time in which similar things happened or were created? It does not have a specific start or end date or a set number of years.
Era
How many years passed between 10,226,177 BCE and 2003 CE?
10,228,179 years passed between 10,226,177 BCE and 2003 CE. (10,228,180 OK, but we actually don't count year 0.)