Statistics for Ancient Mesopotamia

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Westernmost of the two major rivers which originate in modern-day Turkey	Euphrates	93%
The Eastern of those two rivers	Tigris	93%
Oldest writing system in the world, consisting of wedge-shaped impressions made in clay tablets	Cuneiform	73%
Located just South of Baghdad, this city was originally founded by the Akkadians, before Amorite warlords made it a dominant regional power	Babylon	69%
King of the above city in the early 18th Century BC, famous for the oldest written law code in existence	Hammurabi	69%
Chalcolithic (copper age) period spanning most of the 4th Millenium BC, named for one of Sumer's oldest cities	Uruk	62%
Mighty founder of the Akkadian empire - the world's first true empire	Sargon of Akkad	53%
Literal meaning of the Greek word Mesopotamia	Between Rivers	47%
Anatolian empire, led by King Mursili I who sacked Mari and Babylon in the early 16th Century BC	Hittite	47%
Powerful founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. Captured Babylon in 539 BC ending the story of ancient Mesopotamia	Cyrus the Great	45%
Neighbouring civilisation based in the cities of Susa and Anshan in modern-day Iran. Destroyed the Sumerian empire.	Elam	36%
Iron-Age empire whose capital cities included Nimrud and Nineveh. Dominated the entire Middle East, becoming the largest the world had ever seen	Neo-Assyrian	31%
Iranian people under King Cyaxares. Allied with the Neo-Babylonian King Nabopolassar to finally destroy the cities of ancient Assyria	Medes	24%
Hurrian-speaking state based in Northern Mesopotamia. Succeeded Yamhad and the Old Assyrian empire	Mitanni	20%
Assyrian King famous for building a vast library	Ashurbanipal	18%
Neolithic cultural period of Mesopotamia spanning around 6500 BC - 3800 BC	Ubaid	18%
Bronze age city state located in modern-day Syria, about half way between Sumer and the Levant	Mari	16%
Monumental engraved stone slab, used to proclaim laws, mark boundaries or celebrate victories	Stele	16%
Empire founded by Ur Nammu, also known as the Third Dynasty of Ur	Neo-Sumerian	9%
Persian Gulf civilisation based around modern-day Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Offered a trade link to India and the Indus valley cultures	Dilmun	7%
Nabonidus was the final King of this dynasty, the last of the Neo-Babylonian empire.	Chaldean Dynasty	5%
Iranian nomads originating in the Zagros Mountains who ruled Sumer after the fall of the Akkadian empire	Gutians	5%
Dynasty which controlled Babylon for the next 400 years	Kassite	5%
Ensi of the city of Umma and the only King of the third dynasty of Uruk. Briefly united Sumer into a single kingdom in the 24th Century BC	Lugalzagesi	5%