Sumer
Sumerian kings were very powerful because they were chosen by these important figures.
What are gods?
This goddess falls in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
Over 300 laws are written in this language.
What is cuneiform?
What are bricks?
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is domesticate?
At the very bottom level of the social structure were these people who were most likely enemies.
What were slaves?
Gilgamesh was told he could live forever if he stayed awake for this amount of time.
What is seven days and seven nights?
Hammurabi's code is currently located in this major museum.
What is the Louvre, Paris?
This drink was often used to pay workers wages and was commonly consumed at festivals.
What is beer?
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
Sumerians constructed these buildings to worship the gods.
What were ziggurats?
Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay this monster.
Who is Humbaba?
The king in the picture is given these two things.
What is a ring and a scepter?
This invention was mostly used for ceremonies or by the military.
What is a chariot?
A large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government.
What is an empire?
These two key inventions helped the Sumerians with farming and agriculture.
What is the plow and irrigation?
After slaying the monster, Gilgamesh and Enkidu return to this city as heroes.
Where is Uruk?
Hammurabi's code has a picture of this god.
Who is Shamash?
This invention was important for keeping track of traded goods that they were making and selling.
What is writing?
The geographic area in between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, also known as the “land between two rivers”.
What was Mesopotamia?
This instrument was like a harp and was used to play music and please the gods.
What was a lyre?
This man tells Gilgamesh about a great flood that brought him eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?
The stele is made out of this material.
What is black diorite?
This invention enabled people to churn out large numbers of items such as containers.
What is pottery?
The two largest rivers in Southwest Asia that reaches from the mountains in Turkey to the Persian Gulf.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?