Inventions
An invention Mesopotamians used for transport and war.
What is a cart?
A person who made things; a craftsperson.
What is an artisan?
The person who created the first laws.
Who is King Hammurabi?
The number of characteristics of civilization.
What is seven?
He was Gilgamesh's friend, but he died.
Who is Enkidu?
The invention Mesopotamians used for farming.
Someone who writes things.
What is a scribe?
How the Babylonians got their wealth.
What is conquering?
The kind of writing Mesopotamians used.
What is cuneiform?
The goddess who fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is Ishtar?
The temples Mesopotamians built for their gods.
What is a ziggurat?
Arc-shaped area of land with fertile soil.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
What is Assyria?
Who Mesopotamians believed chose the kings.
Who are gods?
The monster Gilgamesh and Enkidu slew.
Who is Humbaba?
The building invention that added strength and beauty to Mesopotamian buildings.
What is an arch?
Believing in multiple gods.
What is polytheism?
The word for a large, planned city that the Babylonians created the first of.
What is a metropolis?
The two inventions that helped Mesopotamians have a stable food supply.
What are plows and irrigation?
One way Gilgamesh tried to gain eternal life.
What is staying awake for sevven days and seven nights?
The two things Mesopotamians started mass producing.
What are pottery and bricks?
Fine particles of rock
What is silt?
The kind of walls the Babylonians were to first to build.
What are double and triple walls?
Mesopotamians sometimes sacrificed these to the gods.
What are humans?
The gods sent this to defeat Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
What is the Bull of Heaven?