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Mesopotamia Challenge
www.mesopotamia.co.uk/geography/home_set.html
Click on “Explore.” Using the drop down menu, select the maps necessary to answer
each question.
1. List five ancient cities found in Mesopotamia.
2. Using the “Modern Political” map, write the names of the three modern day countries
that the Tigris and Euphrates Rives run through.
3. What body of water do the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers dump into?
4. On the “Natural Resources” map, name the four natural resources available to the
ancient Mesopotamians.
5. Click on the “Babylonia map of the World.” What is one difference between this map
of the world and the maps we use today?
Now click on “Story.” While reading the story of Gilgamesh, answer the following
questions.
6. Why was Gilgamesh bored?
7. Why was cedar wood so special? List at least two reasons.
8. Describe the demon, Humbaba.
9. What did Gilgamesh decide to do when he encountered Humbaba?
10. How did Gilgamesh and Enkidu get the cedar logs back to Uruk?
Now, from the home page, click on Mesopotamia. Explore the three major cities and
activities: Babylon, Sumer, Assyria.
List five new facts you learned about Mesopotamia from exploring the three cities.