Hammurabi’s Code
This writing was used to write Hammurabi's laws.
What is Cuneiform?
The monster Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill.
Who is Humbaba?
Where Sumer is located.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
One of the most important inventions in Mesopotamian history.
What is the wheel?
A way to supply an area of land with water.
What is irrigation?
There were this many laws written in Hammurabi's code.
What is over 300?
In the beginning this is what Gilgamesh wanted to be.
What is famous?
The people living here can access the Tigris and Euphrates river water first.
What is kish?
A flat disc surrounded by water but not accurate when it was first created.
What are maps?
The business of growing crops and farming.
What is agriculture?
Hammurabi's code is this many years old.
What is 4,000?
The goddess that fell in love with Gilgamesh.
Who is the goddess of love,Ishtar?
Sumer fought the first war with this state.
What is Elam?
They used this for farming.
What is the plow?
When a country gives money to another as a sign that they are superior.
What is a tribute?
Many of these laws talk about two things.
What is problems with agriculture and irrigation?
What Gilgamesh was determined to find.
What is eternal life?
The place where the Tigris and Euphrates river begin.
What is the Taurus Mountain in Turkey?
These were first made out of clay but later were made stronger.
What is bricks?
Small independent country with its own laws and government.
What is a City State?
King Hammurabi ruled from this year to that year.
What is 1792-1750 B.C.E?
These two people gave Gilgamesh advice on eternal life while he was traveling.
Who is Utnapishtim and an innkeeper?
The four things battle wagons pulled to the battlefield in the wars Sumer would fight.
What are Archers, soldiers, generals, and weapons?
Started as pictures but evolved into syllabic symbols.
What is writing?
The way a region or country uses its resources to produce and sell or trade goods to meet peoples needs and wants.
What is an economy?