Early Civilization
The shift from hunting/gathering to farming and herding.
A person who trained and dedicated their life to writing and keeping records.
What is a scribe?
Guardian of the Cedar Forest. Trash talks Gilgamesh and Enkidu before being killed.
Who is Humbaba?
Who is Sargon?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
An invention that helped break and turn the soil, increasing the speed of farming.
What is the plow?
Roll-stamp used as personal signature/ID in clay
What is a Cylinder Seal?
The gods make him to match Gilgamesh and answer the prayers of the people of Uruk.
Who is Enkidu?
This ruler had images of himself with a horned helmet and claimed that he was the "King of the Four Quarters".
Who is Naram-Sin?
What does Mesopotamia mean?
What is "the land between rivers"?
Digging ditches and canals help water your fields.
What is Irrigation?
Writing in Mesopotamia was used primarily for this reason.
What is record keeping or receipts?
This goddess sends this divine creature to kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu for Gilgamesh's insult. (Name the goddess and the creature).
Who is Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven.
Tribes of mountain men that came from the northeast to seize control of the Mesopotamia from the Akkadians.
Who are the Gutians?
The capital of the Akkadian Empire that lies between the Tigris and the Euphrates and is northwest of Uruk.
What is Agade?
Extra food beyond what a community immediately needs.
What is surplus?
A reed tool that would be used to press into clay to form wedge shaped symbols.
What is a stylus?
This woman helps civilize Enkidu and leads him to the city of Uruk.
Who is Shamhat?
When there is no strong central power and others come rushing in to seize power.
What is a power vacuum?
The two city states that are constantly warring against each other between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. North of Ur and Eridu.
What are Lagash and Umma?
When people can focus on one specific job and make a living off it with a variety of jobs in the city that different people have.
What is Specialization?
Writing in Mesopotamia began as pictures representing objects to wedge shaped symbols representing sounds. Name each kind of writing in order (2 answers).
What is pictographs and Cuneiform?
Who is Urshanabi?
Mesopotamian King of Umma who conquered all of Southern Mesopotamia (Sumer). Ruled until he was defeated by the Akkadians.
Who is Lugalzagesi?
The mountain range east and north of the Tigris River.
What are the Zagros Mountains?