Statistics for Ancient Near East

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City famous for its Hanging Gardens	Babylon	96%
	Euphrates	89%
Two Rivers that the above is situated between	Tigris	88%
'Cradle of Civilization', situated between two rivers	Mesopotamia	87%
Kingdom in Mesopotamia between 2500 and 605 B.C.	Assyria	70%
Epic Poem regarded as the first great work of literature	Epic of {Gilgamesh}	70%
Crescent-shaped area of Mesopotamia and Egypt, where the first civilizations rose	Fertile Crescent	63%
Region and Civilization of Southern Mesopotamian, settled in 5500 BC	Sumer	61%
Largest Mesopotamian City State	Ur	60%
Massive terraced step-pyramids built by the Mesopotamians	Ziggurat	56%
Mesopotamian Empire, regarded as the first empire	Akkadian Empire	52%
Founder of the above	Sargon the Great	40%
Two Capital Cities of the above	Ashur	37%
King who commissioned the build of the Hanging Gardens	Nebuchadnezzar II	34%
	Nineveh	32%
Founder of the above city	Ur-Nammu	4%