History of Gilgamesh

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The character of Gilgamesh was most likely based on a real king, who ruled in __________ around the year _________BC
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The British monarch who commissioned and paid for the expedition that discovered the Gilgamesh tablets was ___________.
3.
Gilgamesh was discovered in _________.
4.
The man who discovered Gilgamesh was an archeologist named ______________.
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Which of the following things did archeologists NOT need to do in the process of "discovering" Gilgamesh:
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Gilgamesh was etched onto clay tablets with a triangular-shaped stylus and then baked for permanence. This type of writing, which is more abstract than the ________ used by earlier cultures, was called cuneiform.
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The story of Gilgamesh was mostly written in a language called _______. It filled 12 different clay tablets.
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At the time of Gilgamesh's discovery, the U.S. President was ______________.
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Most of the things written in cuneiform were _____________.
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The story is set in the city of ________, which was located in the ancient country of __________.