Vocabulary
A person who makes money by selling goods.
What is Merchant?
A women and indecent and rejects her husband.
They shall throw her in the water.
He wants to be famous.
What does Gilgamesh want to be?
The sun dried it out.
How did the brick dry?
These wagons brought generals and weapons to the battlefield.
How did sumerians use the wagon to fight?
The business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals.
What is agriculture?
For three years they shall work in the houses of their purchaser or master; in the fourth year they shall be given their freedom.
If a man be in debt and is unable to pay his creditors, he shall sell his wife, son, or daughter, or bind them over to service.
He killed a bull.
Why does the gods think Gilgamesh has powers?
To move things.
What did the Wheel help with?
2700 BCE.
When was the first war in recorded history fought?
The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.
What is Technology?
While he who leaped into the river shall take possession of the house that had belonged to his accuser.
If any one bring an accusation against a man, and the accused go to the river and leap into the river, if he sink in the river his accuser shall take possession of his house.
He dies because he was feeling ill.
What happens to Enkidu?
This made sailing change angels.
What is large cloth?
The Mesopotamia soldiers captured in war were some of the first enslaved people in ancient history.
What happens to Mesopotamia soldiers captured in war?
A type of writing that uses wedge-shaped characters.
What is cuneiform?
The builder shall be put to death.
If a builder builds a house for a man and does not make its construction sound what happens?
He could live forever.
What was he told?
This invention was made 2500 years ago.
The royal border.
Historians do not exactly know why. One theory is that Mesopotamia state fought over crops, animals, or land.
Why did historians think city-state fought one another?
A small, independent country with its own law and government.
What is city-state?
They will kill a person.
They didn't build a house correctly what will happen?
He became wiser.
What did he become?
When your board you can play a board game.
What does board games help with?
List the Sumerians first.
They fought the first war in recorded history.