Mesopotamia

a traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people or something in the natural world

• myth
• epic
• silt
• monotheism

a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero

• myth
• caravans
• bazaar
• epic

a belief in one God

• Gilgamesh
• monotheism
• polytheism
• scribe

He wanted to be granted immortality

• Gilgamesh
• Enkidu
• Utnapishtim
• Ishtar

a wild man created by the gods

• Ishtar
• Enkidu
• Gilgamesh
• Urshanabi

a group of merchants traveling together for safety, usually with a large number of camels; a group of traveling merchants and animals

• bazaar
• province
• irrigation
• caravans

Land between two rivers

• Fertile Crescent
• city-state
• empire
• Mesopotamia

-rebuilt by Nebuchadnezzar-had the Hanging Gardens-had a complex irrigation system-built many canals-collected high taxes and tributes

• empire
• city-state
• Mesopotamia
• Babylon

a pyramid-shaped structure with a temple at the tops, has many terraces

• pyramid
• ziggurat
• Ishtar
• battering ram

writing developed by the Sumerians that used wedge-shaped marks made in soft clay

• writing
• monotheism
• cuneiform
• fertile crescent