Statistics for Ancient History by Letter ‘U’

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City-state in Southern Mesopotamia, site of a large Ziggurat and the capital of the Neo-Sumerian Empire	Ur	94%
Large red rock, central to ancient Aboriginal mythology	Uluru	76%
Third century Bishop of Rome or Pope, the first of his name	Urban	76%
Roman name for Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca and veteran of the Trojan Wars	Ulysses	73%
Italic tribal group of central Iron-Age Italy, gave their name to a modern region	Umbri	58%
Ethnic group, originally Turkic peoples from the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, now the largest group in the Xinjiang region of Western China	Uyghur	58%
Sumerian city-state dominant in the 4th Millenium BC, gave it’s name to the period	Uruk	48%
Non Indo-European language family originating in Northern Eurasia, evolved into modern languages including Hungarian, Finnish and Sami	Uralic	39%
Late Vedic Sanskrit texts, supplied the basis of Hindu philosophy	Upanishads	21%
Prehistoric period of ancient Mesopotamia, spanning roughly 6500 BC - 4000 BC	Ubaid	18%
Sumerian city-state famous for it’s territorial wars with Lagash, home of Lugalzagezi, possibly the first Emperor in history	Umma	18%
Neolithic port city in Northern Syria, founded circa 6000 BC, lasted until the Late Bronze Age Collapse around 1200 BC	Ugarit	12%
Late Bronze-Age culture of Central Europe named for their burial rituals. Later succeeded by the Celtic Hallstatt culture	Urnfield	12%