Gilgamesh

Question 1

c. 10,000 BC

Answer 1

invention of agriculture in Mesopotamia

Question 2

c. 3,000s BC

Answer 2

Sumerians settled in Mesopotamia, advanced culture

Question 3

c. 3500 BC

Answer 3

first invention of writing with cuneiform, pictographic, not great at storytelling

Question 4

c. 3,000 BC

Answer 4

massive flood, Sumerians made this year 0

Question 5

c. 3,000 - 2,800 BC

Answer 5

second invention of writing with phonological system - each symbol has a sound

Question 6

c. 2700 BC

Answer 6

Gilgamesh was probably a king in Uruk

Question 7

c. 2000 BC

Answer 7

stories about Gilgamesh appear throughout middle east, viewed as a religious work, date of Gilgamesh’s origin*

Question 8

c. 1300 BC

Answer 8

Sinleqiunninni took all Gilgamesh stories and combined them into a big narrative; lived in Nineveh

Question 9

1844 AD

Answer 9

tablets are found in Iraq, sent to England

Question 10

1857 AD

Answer 10

tablets were translated

Question 11

1872 AD

Answer 11

George Smith thought he found ‘proof’ that Noah’s ark happened