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Ancient Mesopotamia

The cradle of civilization
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1. What does the word Mesopotamia mean?
The land between rivers ✓
The land between seas ✓
The land between mountains ✓
The land between valleys ✓
2. In what current country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located?
Turkey ✓
Iraq ✓
Pakistan ✓
Iran ✓
3. Who were the first humans to form a civilization?
Persians ✓
Sumerians ✓
Babylonians ✓
Assyrians ✓
4. Who was Hammurabi?
King of Babylon ✓
King of Egypt ✓
King of Assyria ✓
King of Sumer ✓
5. What was Hammurabi known for?
Inventing the wheel ✓
Long beard ✓
Code of law ✓
Multiple wives ✓
6. Which empire developed the first form of writing by using pictures for words and inscribing them on clay tablets?
Sumerians ✓
Akkadians ✓
Assyrians ✓
Babylonians ✓
7. What was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades?
Assur ✓
Nineveh ✓
Kish ✓
Nippur ✓
8. What ruler invaded the land and conquered the Persian Empire in 333 BC?
Alexander the Great ✓
Sargon the Great ✓
Cleopatra VII ✓
Julius Caesar ✓
9. Who besieged Jerusalem in 568 BC, captured a large number of Judeans and took them to Babylon where they became slaves?
Nebuchadnezzar II ✓
Cyrus the Great ✓
Xerxes I ✓
Darius I ✓
10. What was the deciding battle during the first invasion of Greece by the Persians?
Battle of Athens ✓
Battle of Thermopylae ✓
Battle of Salamis ✓
Battle of Marathon ✓
11. What was a ziggurat in Ancient Mesopotamia?
Large theatre ✓
Temple to the local god ✓
Siege weapon ✓
Type of vehicle ✓
12. What ancient wonder of the world had its home in Babylon?
Temple of Artemis ✓
Colossus ✓
Statue of Zeus ✓
Hanging Gardens ✓
13. What city was the center of the Sumerian civilization?
Akkad ✓
Uruk ✓
Babylon ✓
Persepolis ✓
14. Ancient Mesopotamia was famously located by which two rivers?
Indus and Tigris ✓
Tigris and Euphrates ✓
Nile and Indus ✓
Euphrates and Nile ✓
15. Under which ruler, the Persians conquered Babylon and much of Mesopotamia?
Cyrus the Great ✓
Xerxes I ✓
Darius I ✓
Ramses II ✓
16. In Sumerian literature what was Gilgamesh searching for?
Love ✓
Wealth ✓
Meaning of life ✓
Eternal life ✓
17. What is Gilgamesh according to mythology?
Dragon ✓
Lion ✓
Devil ✓
Demigod ✓
18. What is the name of the wild man that the gods sent to challenge Gilgamesh, but eventually they became best friends?
Bull of Heaven ✓
Utnapishtim ✓
Humbaba ✓
Enkidu ✓
19. The Persian wars were a series of wars fought between the Persians and which empire?
Roman ✓
Greek ✓
Babylonian ✓
Sumerian ✓
20. Where was the battle where 300 Spartans hold off the entire Persian army?
Marathon ✓
Pydna ✓
Grancius ✓
Thermopylae ✓
Crem
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Level 68
Feb 5, 2021
Fun quiz!
Nenadbs
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Level 53
Feb 27, 2021
Thanks :)
Alexquiz17
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Level 87
May 10, 2021
Yes, good quiz, ancient history rocks!
Nenadbs
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Level 53
May 11, 2021
Thanks :)
ItzIngenious
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Level 60
Feb 2, 2023
Cool, but once you get to the Persian wars, Mesopotamian culture was already vanishing.
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