Statistics for Middle School History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
	Euphrates	81%
Two main rivers of Mesopotamia	Tigris	77%
Body of water that froze over creating a land bridge between North America and Asia, supposedly how the Paleolithic people traveled to the Americas	Bering Starait	58%
Word describing a religion with multiple gods	Polytheism	58%
Three scripts written on the Rosetta Stone	Greek	55%
King of Babylon known for his creation of the first set of laws	Hammurabi	55%
Two big crops grown in the Neolithic Middle East, India, and Nile Valley	Wheat	55%
One of the biggest trading partners of the Ancient Egyptians, one notable trading item was an expensive purple dye	Phoenicia	39%
Persian king known for the conquering of Mesopotamia	King Cyrus	35%
	Barley	32%
	Hieroglyphic	29%
Current place where the Rosetta Stone is stored	British Museum	26%
Female pharaoh of Egypt's New Kingdom that preferred to trade rather than create war with foreign nations	Hatshepsut	26%
A natural mummy discovered in the Alps by hikers, also known as the Iceman	Ötzi	19%
UNESCO world heritage site and Neolithic civilization in modern day Turkey, the prehistoric mound settlements were abandoned before the Bronze Age	Çatalhöyük	6%
	Demotic	6%
Small boat used in fur-trading North America, specially designed to be docked in shallow waters and light-weight so it can be dragged upon shore with ease.	Mackinaw Boat	3%