Vocabulary words
To train a wild animal to be useful to humans.
What is Domesticate?
The first known superhero.
Who is Gilgamesh?
The writing that people in Mesopotamia used.
What is Cuneiform?
Inventions and tools that improve people s lives.
What is Technology?
The first king to write laws
Who is Hammurabi?
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
What is Mesopotamia?
Gilgamesh wants this at the beginning of the story.
What is Famous?
Original invention that helped Sumerian city-states to fight.
What is the wagon?
Ways to express feelings creatively (Music, Dance, Literature, Drama, Sports)
What is Art?
A tall carved object.
What is a Stele?
Fine particles of rock.
What is a Silt?
Gilgamesh's friend who helped him slay the monster Humbaba.
What is Enkidu?
In the Greek language this means the land between two rivers.
What is Mesopotamia?
A person or a group who make and enforce laws to create a order.
What is a Government?
The sun god of justice and King Hammurabi.
What is the picture carving on the stele?
an arc-shaped region in Southwest Asia, with rich soil.
What is a Fertile Crescent.
This person goes to Heaven in rage!!
Who is Ishtar?
The Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into this body of water.
What is the Persian Gulf?
A set of beliefs or form of worship that tries to answer questions about human existence.
What is religion?
The stele is this many years old.
What is 4,000?
a society marked by developed arts, sciences, government, and social structure.
What is a Civilization?
This person told Gilgamesh about his eternal life.
Who is Utnapishtim?
They developed the worlds first major empire.
What is Assyria?
The organization of a society into different levels based on jobs, gender, class, age, ethnicity, etc.
What is a Social Structure?
The god who gave Hammurabi his power.
Who is Shamash?