Farming
Geography
Gilgamesh
Vocabulary
Characteristics of a Civilization
100

A device to supply land and crops with water.

What is an irrigation system?

100

The rivers that border Mesopotamia.

What are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?

100

The thing that Gilgamesh wanted.

What is eternal life?

100

Fine particles of rock that clogged waterways.

What is silt?

100

A way to express emotion and skill typically in a physical form such as painting or sculpture.

What is art?

200
A characteristic of a civilization that is related to farming.

What is stable food supply?

200

The place where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers empty into.

What is the Persian Gulf?

200

The first superhero.

Who was Gilgamesh?

200

A military blockade and attack on a city to force it to surrender.

What is a siege?

200

A way to ensure that people have the food they need to survive.

What is a stable food supply?

300

Animals that helped pull plows.

What are oxen?

300

The mountains where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers begin.

What are the Taurus mountains?

300

The goddess of love.

Who is Ishtar?

300

Wedge shaped characters used to write in ancient Mesopotamia.

What is cuneiform?

300

The belief in a superhuman power or god(s).

What is religion?

400

A tool used for loosening and turning soil for crops.

What is the plow?

400

An arc-shaped region that supports life.

What is the fertile crescent?

400

The people who caused Enkidu to be ill.

Who are the gods?

400

A symbol that stands for an object.

What is a pictograph?

400

The use of tools and other inventions for practical purposes.

What is technology?

500

The social class that farmers were.

What is middle-class?

500

The city-state closest to the Persian Gulf.

What is Ur?

500

The monster that Gilgamesh and Enkidu slew.

Who was Humbaba?

500

The belief that there are many gods.

What is Polytheism?

500

A person/people that rule over a society to make life orderly and direct people's behavior.

What is a government?