Geography
What does Mesopotamia mean?
Land between the rivers
What is a circular invention of the Sumerians?
The Wheel
What was the name of the capital city of Assyria
Ashur
What is the name of the Babylonian's main city?
Babylon
What type of poem is Gilgamesh?
Epic
What happens to the rivers in Mesopotamia once a year?
They flood
What do we call a Sumerian city and its surrounding territory?
City-State
war
Who created a code of laws for his empire
Hammurabi
Gilgamesh was a bored ______ of the city of Uruk.
King
What are the names of the two major rivers in Mesopotamia?
The Tigris and Euphrates
Which Akkadian King conquered the Sumerian City-States?
Sargon the Great
Ashurbanipal created the world's first "universal" __________.
library
In the term Neo-Babylonian Empire, what does the prefix neo- mean?
New
Gilgamesh is an ancient fictional story also known as a __________ that involving supernatural beings or events.
Myth
What modern day country in located in Mesopotamia?
Iraq
Sumerians started building towns and villages in Mesopotamia around 3500 BCE. Around how many years ago was 3500 BCE?
About 5,500 years ago
In the song, "The Mesopotamians," by They Might Be Giants, what does Ashurbanipal make fun of?
Aramaic was written on paper. What type of paper made from a grass-like plant that grows in Egypt.
papyrus
Who is Gilgamesh's "Wild" friend?
Enkidu
Where do the rivers in Mesopotamia begin?
The Taurus Mountains in Turkey.
What is the name of the Sumerian writing system?
Cuneiform
The Assyrian Empire touched 5 bodies of water, name 4.
Tigris, Euphrates, Nile, Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea
Which Babylonian King destroyed Jerusalem and took its people captive?
Nebuchadnezzar
At the end of Gilgamesh, what is Gilgamesh trying to obtain but doesn't?
Immortality