Gilgamesh
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100

This is Gilgamesh's sidekick.

Who is Enkidu?

100

This is to train a wild animal

What is domesticate?

100

These were the people in the lowest class.

What are slaves?

100

This is a round object that they used for easier transportation.

What is the wheel?

100

These are the two rivers that gave life to this early civilization.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

200

She was in love with Gilgamesh.

Who is Istar?

200

This is a crafts person.

What is a artisan?

200

This was the written language that evolved from pictographs.

What is cuneiform?

200

This invention was pulled by two animals, generally oxen, and used on the farms.

What is the plow?

200

This is the city-state out of Kish and Ur that gets the water from the Tigris and Euphrates river first.

What is Kish?

300

This animal was sent from heaven to go down and kill Gilgamesh.

What is the Bull of Heaven?

300

This is a tower that is used for people to pray at and for God's to use as a staircase to come down to earth.

What is a ziggurat?

300

This was the spoken language after Mesopotamia was all ruled as one empire.

What is Akkadian or Babylonian?

300

This invention originated from the plow and was used in war.

What is the Chariot?

300

This is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty out.

What is the Persian Gulf?

500

The monster, killed by Gilgamesh, accompanied by Enkidu.

What is Humbaba?

500

This is a large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.

What is empire?
500

This is the class that priests were in.

What is the Upper class?

500

This invention is the way they stopped floods and droughts.

What is hydraulic engineering.

500

This is a arc-shaped region in southwest Asia, with rich soil.

What is the Fertile Crescent?

1000

This is the person who told Gilgamesh about the flood who granted them eternal life.

Who is Utnapishtim?
1000

This is a military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.

What is a siege?

1000

This is the sun god, god of justice.

Who is Shamash?

1000

This is the invention they used to mass produce pottery.

What is the turning wheel?

1000

This is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers start.

Where are the Taurus mountains?