Monuments
Germanic burial custom built from stone slabs.
What is a "stone ship"?
"Middle Stone Age"; 10 000- 8000 BC; chipped stone tools began to be used.
What was the Mesolithic period?
Wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Sumerian writing.
What was cuneiform?
What the kings of Sumer were called.
What are lugals?
Reed and goatskin boats used on the Tigris and Euphrades rivers.
What were keleks?
Two tall stones supporting a lintel.
What is a trilithon?
The "New Stone Age"; 8000- 5000 BC; agriculture began.
What was the Neolithic period?
What was a cuneus?
Means "House of the Tablets"; schools of the scribes.
What were edubba?
Governers appointed by Sumerian kings.
What were ensi?
High temples built to tempt deities to Earth; had food. Babylonian or Assyrian.
What is a ziggurat?
The "Old Stone Age"; 2 million- 10 000 BC; stone tools began to be used.
What was the Paleolithic period?
Babylonian coin worth 60 shekels.
What was a mina?
A dowry; inhertited by the bride's children.
What is a shirqu?
Story of legendary Sumerian king who ruled Uruk.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
An early city said to be the first city "founded by the gods".
What was Eridu?
Babylonian coin worth the same as 180 grains of barley; usually in silver.
What is a shekel?
Winter.
What is enten?
Attributing human qualities to non-human forms.
What is anthromorphic?
Built by Nebuchadnezzar II for his wife; has the Ishtar Gate.
What was the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
Babylonian coin worth 60 mina.
What was a talent?
Summer.
What is emesh?