Gilgamesh
Vocabulary
Inventions Sumer
Geography
Hammurabi' s code
100

Gilgamesh and Enkidu slayed this monster. 

Who is Humbaba? 

100

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes. 

What is technology? 

100

They built temples,trading places, and administrative centers with this. 

What is built with bricks?

100

It is a tall carved object. 

What is a stele?

100

The code is if the woman is not innocent, leaves her husband, ruins her house, neglecting her husband, they shall throw that woman into the waters.

What is code 143?

200

Gilgamesh rejects this person and goes to heaven. 

Who is Ishtar? 

200

A society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structures 

What is a civilization? 

200

The Mesopotamians used this to measure and plan life. 

Why did they use time?

200

He is the sun god of justice. 

Who is Shamash?

200

Hammurabi's code is written in this language. 

What is cuneiform. 

300

Ishtar asks her father to send this animal to punish Gilgamesh.  

What  is a bull?

300

An ancient Mesopotamian temple tower with outside staircases and a shrine at the top. 

What is the Ziggurat?

300

The Mesopotamians used this first to make pottery then to go places. 

Why did they use the wheel?

300

The king is responsible for peace and prosperity.

What is the king responsible for?

300

The code is if the builder doesn't build a house correctly and the house falls and the owner dies the builder will be put to  death. 

What is code 229?

400

When Gilgamesh and his friend got punished one of them got very ill. 

Who is Enkidu?

400
A symbol that stands for an object. 

What is a pictograph?

400

The Mesopotamian's used this know where to go. 

Why did they use the Cartography?

400

Shamash is a god because of the special horned crown and the flames of light. 

Why can we know that Shamash is a god? 

400

The code is the man is in debt and is unable to pay his creditors he shall sell his wife his son and daughter or bind them over to service. For three years they shall work in the houses of their purchaser or master in the fourth year they are given their freedom.   

What is code 117?

500

Gilgamesh met this person and he told Gilgamesh how a great flood brought him to eternal life.  

Who is the Utnapishtim? 

500

A type of writing that uses wedge shaped characters.

What is cuneiform?

500

They used this to go through water.  

Why did they use sailing?

500

This is the land between the two rivers

What is Mesopotamia?


500

The code is  If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house.

What is code 2?