Vocabulary
This is a way to supply land with water.
What is Irrigation?
This person was in love with Gilgamesh but was rejected.
Who is Ishtar
These are the two largest rivers in southwest Asia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
This is a person who writes.
What is a scribe?
This is the number of laws Hammurabi wrote
What is 300
This is a small, independent country with its own laws and government.
What is a City-State?
This person helped slay the monster Humbaba
Who is Enkidu
This peice of land is in Mesopitamia.
What is Sumer?
This is a craftsperson
What is a Artisan
This is what the god handed Hammurabi, this is a sign of power.
What are a scepter and a ring?
This is a place in southern Mesopitamia where cities were first discovered.
What is Sumer?
This was sent down to earth to punish Gilgamesh.
What is the Bull Of Heaven?
What is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates river
What is Mesepotamia
This is a person who makes money by selling goods
What is a merchant
This predates the biblical text.
What is the stele?
This is a large area of land where multiple groups of people are ruled by the same laws and government
What is an Empire
This person told Gilgamesh to enjoy the simple things in life.
Who is the innkeeper?
This is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers drain.
What is the Persian gulf
This is a group of military men and they attack other cities force it to surrender
What is a siege?
This is what the god in the statue's feet were on.
What are mountains
These are fine partials of rock
What is Silt
This person told Gilgamesh about a great flood that brought them eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?
Arc shaped region in southwest Asia.
What is the fertile Cresent
This is the business of farming, growing crops, and raising animals
What is agriculture
This is the phrase that Hammurabi wrote when saying "If the house falls down on the owner the builder will be put to death
What is and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth