Mesopotamia
Civilization
Gilgamesh
Vocab
Inventions
100

these rivers start up in the Snowy Taurus mountains and end at a river Delta in Iraq as well as supplying Sumerians with fresh drinking water and bathing water.

What are the Tigiris and Euphrates rivers?

100

When a region has enough resources to feed their people and/or save them for future consumption

What is a stable food supply?

100

The bull that gilgamesh kills in the story

What is the bull of heaven?

100
The farming/harvesting of crops and breeding of animals to create a stable food supply

What is agriculture?

100

A wheeled way of transporting goods that helped Sumerians transport goods from a large distance as well as sending soldiers into war

What is a wagon?

200

This land is very fertile and good for growing crops

What is the fertile crescent?

200

The way a region uses resources to produce, sell, or trade goods.

What is economy?

200

Gilgamesh's best friend who helps him slay the monster they encountered.

Who is Enkidu?

200

The process of supplying an area with a large amount of water

What is irrigation?

200

One of the world's major empires that lasted more than 3 centuries.

What is the Assyrian empire?

300

this person maintains ziggurats and temples as well as managing the tax and army.

Who is a king?

300

some kind of invention that's used for practical purposes.

What is technology?

300

Gilgamesh returned home with this after trying many ways to live forever

What is wisdom?

300

An extra amount of supplies whether it's food, animals, or materials.

What is a surplus?

300
A way for people to express feelings and creativity through pictures.

What is art?

400

A place in southern Mesopotamia, where cities had first appeared

What is the Sumer?

400

The worshiping of a superhuman being or god

What is religion?

400

This person falls in love with Gilgamesh after he returns to Uruk

Who is Ishtar?

400

Wealth that's sent from one country to another to signify superiority or power by the sender.

What is tribute?

400
This allowed horse transportation to happen and walking was no longer the only reasonable mean of transportation.

What is the wheel?

500

Mesopotamia is surrounded by these country(s)

which is Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey.

500

A section that is populated by slaves that were captured during war.

What is lower class?

500

The monster that Gilgamesh and Enkidu killed

Who is Humbaba?

500

An age of time where people used stone tools for practical purposes such as hunting and foraging

What is the Paleolithic era?

500

The way that history was first discovered through (considered the beginning of history)

What is writing?