Gilgamesh

Along the Tigris River papyrus reeds grew & were cultivated for the earliest forms of paper

The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in Hebrew on _______________ and _______________.

Gilgamesh was obsessed with

Fascinated by death, the Egyptians wrote funerary literature.

Enkidu is made from:

Jews believed in a _________________, or special agreement, with their God.

Instead of buildings, the ____________ was the great “monument” left by ancient Hebrews.

Called “the word of the gods,” __________________ were made up of pictures representing ideas.

The Assyrian capital ______ housed a magnificent library of Sumerian and Babylonian literature.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is said to be written by:

The _________________ and the _______________ were among the first to create a writing system.

Lyric love poems were most popular during the New Kingdom.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in an area associated with a Jewish sect called the Essenes

Hymns and songs first appeared in the Middle Kingdom.

_______ contained pharoahs' earthly possessions as well as their mummified body.

What did Utnapishtim leave to signify to Gilgamesh how many days he’d been sleeping?

The Code of Hammurabi was a collection of laws regulating all aspects of Assyrian life.

Gilgamesh’s greatest downfall was his:

_____ means “people from across the river.”

The __________ is land enriched by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Gilgamesh’s greatest attribute was his:

Prayer and autobiography were two literary genres that emerged in the Old Kingdom.

The __________ was one of the most bitter periods in Hebrew history.

A ziggurat was powerful Egyptian leader, seen as a god on earth.

Meaning “gate of the gods,” __________________ was the capital city along the Euphrates.

The worship of just one God is monotheism.

_____________________ means “land between rivers.”

The Promised Land was already home to the Canaanites & the Philistines when the Hebrews arrived

Sumerians inscribed laws, financial statements, and literature on ______________________.

The Constitution is the law based off of the Ten Commandments.

Which pair of words represent the contrast between Enkidu and Gilgamesh?

In Gilgamesh, sleep is a symbol for:

The primary method the gods communicated with humans in Gilgamesh is:

Repeating key passages was an important feature in Sumerian literature.

The greatest years of Egyptian civilization are divided into three eras:

Diaspora literally means “a scattering.”

The journey Moses led through the desert is called the Exodus.

Sumerians lived in city-states laid out around buildings called ziggurats.

__ contained everything an Egyptian would need to know and need to have in the afterlife.

A kind of “traveler’s guide” to the afterlife 

Who is the god that informs Utnapishtim of the flood?

While in the desert, Moses received the ____, a code of moral & ethical conduct.

Moses led the Babylonians out of the pharaoh’s rule and slavery.

The oldest writing system,________________, was created by pressing a stylus into wet clay

____ were to ease the pharaoh’s journey into the afterlife