Gods and Goddesses
Characters
Events
Vocabulary
Random ?
100

The god of wisdom, friend of humans, and warns of the flood

Who is Ea?

100

Who is the King of Uruk

What is Gilgamesh?

100

Gilgamesh was king of this place.

What is the city of Uruk?

100

A model or an original that has been imitated.


What is an archetype?

100

The oldest piece of fictional literature known today.

What is the Gilgamesh Epic?

200

Goddess who fears Gilgamesh, and goddess of wine

Who is Sinduri?

200
Gilgamesh's equal; wild man
What is Enkidu?
200

Which event causes Gilgamesh to set out on his quest for immortality? 

The death of his friend Enkidu

200

Seeming to threaten evil or misfortune; sinister 

What is ominous?

200
King Gilgamesh was believed to live around this time.
What is 2700 B.C.- 2500 B.C.?
300

God of air, wind, and earth

Who is Enlil?

300

Survivor of a flood sent by the gods to destroy humanity 

Who is Utnapistim

300
A man-bird suffocates him, then he is turned into a bird and the man-bird flies him to the underworld.
What is Enkidu's dream?
300

deadly disease

What is pestilence?

300

What type of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh?

What is Mesopotamia literature?

400

God of war and irrigation

Who is Ninurta

400

Ferryman who travels daily across the sea of death to the home of Utnapishtim

Who is Urshanabi?

400

The gods agreed to exterminate mankind by causing what to happen

A great flood or deluge

400

act that goes beyond limits set by laws

what is a transgression
400

Why does Gilgamesh seek out Utnapishtim?

He wants Utnapishtim to tell him how to become immortal

500

Who is the sun god?

Who is Shamash?

500

What Gilgamesh fought in the City of Uruk because he angered Ishtar by refusing to marry her.

What is Hambaba, the Bull of Heaven

500

What happens to the magical plant that Gilgamesh finds to achieve immortality

A serpent snatches it as he bathes in a pool

500

A larger-than-life main character whose mighty deeds reflect the values admired by society

Epic hero

500

queen of heaven

Who is Ishtar