In a story from this region, a character offers himself as a sacrifice so his blood and wisdom can be used to create seven humans to serve as laborers.
A poem from this region, which centers on a city official who laments the pains the gods have inflicted on him, is known as the "Poem of the Righteous Sufferer." In a work of literature from this region titled for a king's "Instructions," a father gives advice to a son whose name means "he who found life." In a story from this region, a character offers himself as a sacrifice so his blood and wisdom can be used to create seven humans to serve as laborers. The standard version of another story from this region opens with the line (*) "He who saw the deep." In that story from this region, a haughty king, who oppresses his people by forcing them to build walls and claiming the right of first night, has a dream about a meteor. Peoples from this region wrote stories about heroes like Atrahasis and a man who vanquishes the demon of the Cedar Forest, Humbaba. For 10 points, name this region whose cultures created the Epic of Gilgamesh.
A poem from this region, which centers on a city official who laments the pains the gods have inflicted on him, is known as the "Poem of the Righteous Sufferer.
Mesopotamia [accept Sumeria or Iraq or Babylonia; prompt on Fertile Crescent or Near East]