Hammurabi's Code
Sumer
Gilgamesh
Inventions
Vocabulary
100

This god is facing Hammurabi on the Stele.

Who is Shamash?

100

These are the names of the two rivers that go around Mesopotamia.

What are the Tigris and Euphrades rivers?

100

He was Gigamesh's side kick.

Who was Enkidu?

100

This is a round object that was used for moving things.

What is the wheel?

100

This is a system used for easy access to water.

What is irrigation?

200

There are this many laws are in Hammurabi's Code.

What is 300+ laws?

200

This is where the Tigris and Euphrades rivers empty out.

Where is the Persian gulf?

200

This is the moster that Gilgamesh and Enkidu killed.

Who was Humbaba?

200

This is an object used for navigating finding places.

What is the map?

200

This was the land between the Tigris and Euphrades rivers.

What is Mesopotamia?

300

Shamash was giving these two objects to Hammurabi.

What is a ring and a septor?

300

This city-state could access the river water first.

Where is Kish?

300

This person fell in love with Gilgamesh.

Who was Ishtar.

300

This was used to have clean and fresh drinks.

What is Beer?

300

This was used for taking over a city and making them surender.

What is a siege?

400

King Hammurabi ruled in this time.

When was 1792-1750 B.C.E.?

400

This is where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers start.

Where are the Tarus mountains?

400

He defeated the bull from heaven.

Who was Gilgamesh?

400

This was used to navigate rivers and other bodies of water.

What was the sail?

400

These were temples with stairs outside of them used for praying.

What is a Ziggurat?

500

The Stele is this many years old.

What is 4,000 years old?

500

These are the two city-states that are by the Tigris and Euphrades rivers.

What are Kish and Ur?

500

He became ill very ill and later passed away.

who was Enkidu?

500

This was used for writing and communication.

What is cuneiform?

500

This was a person who made money by selling things on the streets or in a shop.

What is a merchant?