Mesopotamian

Question 1

cuneiform

Answer 1

written script or characters used in Mesopotamia
Used to write several different languages

Languages include: sumerian, akkadian, hittite

Question 2

location of mesopotamia

Answer 2

near the euphrates and tigris river area

Question 3

isim

Answer 3

name of healing god and also the city that is named after this god is known to be the physicians capital of the area.

Question 4

the first occurrence of the word “physician”

Answer 4

2700 BCE,

assiu= word for physician

Question 5

written incantations

Answer 5

2600 BCE

Question 6

Growth of cuneiform literary including scholarly divination

Answer 6

1800-1600 BCE

Question 7

1400 BCE

Answer 7

physicians letter

Question 8

750-650 BCE

Answer 8

assyrian kings collect all written knowledge

Question 9

78/9 BCE

Answer 9

last datable cuneiform

Question 10

Incantations

Answer 10

some have rhythm to convey magic

- 7 syllable to portray magic number

Question 11

Divinatory lists

Answer 11

• symptoms directly correlated to a god

- all have different body temps that correlated to a different prognosis

Question 12

Lists

Answer 12

• lists of herbal plants for the creation of herbal medicine

- more likely to accept this as medicine because it is similar to what we know now of medicine and direct prognosis

Question 13

causes of illness in mesopotamia

Answer 13

hands of gods, animals in the natural world, demons, witches, ghosts