Mesopatamia
Characteristics of a Civilization
Gilgamesh
Early Inventions
Vocabulary Words.
100

The first city-states

What was Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia?

100

A helpful invention that farmers used

What is the wagon?

100

This girl falls in love with Gilgamesh

Who was Ishtar?

100

This invention helped farmers and animals carry crops

What is the wagon?

100

A military blockade that is used as an attack on a place, forcing them to surrender

What is a siege?

200

These two rivers supplied Mesopatamia with fresh water

What are the Tigirs and Euphrates rivers?

200

Kings were in charge of building this for the gods

What is a ziggurat?

200

Gilgamesh and this person kill the Bull of Heaven

Who was Enkidu?

200

This writing was made with wedge shaped letters

What is cuneiform?

200

These people were some of the only ones who could read and write

Who were scribes?

300

Animals were ______ to work on farms

What is domesticated?

300

Kings were chosen by these people

What are gods?

300

Gilgamesh was the worlds first __________

What is a superhero?

300

This invention helped move the wagon and other carts

What is the wheel

300

These were people that made money by selling goods

What is a merchant?

400

The land of Mesopatmia became an ______ after Akkadians took over the land

What is an empire?

400

These people helped make decisions about the city-states

What is a government?

400

Gilgamesh failed to find this kind of life

What is eternal life?

400

This helped people with fishing crossing rivers, etc.

What is a sailboat?

400

This was farming, planting crops, etc.

What is agriculture?

500

The land between two rivers

What is Mesopatmia?

500

This is a stele with over 300 laws written in cuneiform

What is Hammurabis code?

500

The Bull of Heaven is sent by this person

Who was Ishtar's father?

500

This was a written language that was used in ancient Mesopatmia

What was cuneiform?

500

These were early inventions

What is technology?