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Background
100
This person was Gilgamesh's best friend.
Who is Enkidu?
100
He is the Sun God.
Who is Shamash?
100
These are the two rivers of Mesopatamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
100
this is the length of time it took to reach the Cedar Forest
What is Three Days
100
This is where the begining of the story Reappears.
What is THE END?
200
This "person" guarded the Cedar Forest of Lebanon.
Who is Humbaba?
200
This Goddess Proposed Marriage to Gilgamesh.
who is Ishtar?
200
All distances referred to in these stories are multiples of this.
What is the number 3?
200
This story appears in both the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh.
What is the flood story?
200
Gilgamesh is the first example of this in Literature.
What is a mortal hero?
300
This person is Utanapishtim's boatman.
Who is Urshanabi?
300
This god ordered the Great Flood.
Who is Enlil?
300
This city was ruled by Gilgamesh.
What is Uruk?
300
These are what Gilgamesh smashed when he couldn't find Urshanbi.
What are the sacred stone figures?
300
This is why the Sumerian gods were unpredictable.
What is the unpredictability of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
400
His name means "He (who) Found Life.
Who is Utanapishtim?
400
This god Conspired to save Utanapishtim from the flood.
Who is Ea?
400
These are the dimensions of Utanapishtim's ark.
What is one cubic acre (200' by 200' by 200')?
400
These structures were one man's Supreme achevement.
What are the walls of Uruk?
400
This priest is credited with creating the late Akkadian version of this epic
Who is sin-leqi-unninni?
500
This is the name of Gilgamesh's axe.
What is the "might of Heroism"?
500
This is the Ruler of the Highest Heaven.
Who is Anu?
500
The Cedar Forrest of Lebanon is located in this land. (other than Lebanon)
What is the Land of the Living?
500
They were not to be responsible for a household or a family.
What were the requirments to join Gilgamesh's expedition to the land of the living?
500
This is the city in which the first copies of the Gilgamesh Epic were found.
What is Nineveh?