| Unit | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Sun god and creator of the universe | Ra | 76%
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| Mesopotamia | Rivers where Mesopotamia is wedged between (Name one) | Tigris | Euphrates | 67%
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| Ancient Egypt | River that is the center of Egypt | Nile | 66%
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| Massive structures built in Giza | Great Pyramids | 59%
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| The final pharaoh of Egypt who committed suicide | Cleopatra VII | 57%
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| Religion he founded | Islam | 56%
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| Carpenter from Judea who founded a major religion | Jesus Christ | 56%
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| Holy city of Judaism | Jerusalem | 54%
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| Egypt became a part of this empire after its fall | Roman Empire | 54%
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| Desert that surrounded Egypt | Sahara | 54%
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| Man chosen by God to lead the Jews from Egypt | Moses | 53%
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| Preserved bodies | Mummies | 53%
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| Title for an Egyptian king | Pharaoh | 51%
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| Holy book of Islam | Qur'an | 51%
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| The empire that the above ruled | Babylonia | 47%
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| Major religion founded by the above | Christianity | 47%
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| The home town of the creator of the above | Mecca | 47%
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| He founded the third monotheistic religion ... the one we haven't talked about yet | Muhammad | 47%
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| Egyptian writing system | Hieroglyphics | 46%
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| Religion the above founded | Judaism | 46%
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| Special way of preparing Jewish food | Kosher | 40%
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| Paperlike material made from reeds | Papyrus | 40%
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| Holy Book of Judaism | Torah | 40%
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| Famous ruler of the above | Alexander the Great | 39%
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| Two divisions of Islam (Name one) | Sunni | Shia | 39%
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| Jewish places of worship | Synagogues | 39%
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| Two-letter Sumerian city-state | Ur | 39%
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| How Jesus died | Crucifixion | 36%
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| The Egyptians thought it was the most important organ | Heart | 36%
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| Code of moral laws received on Mount Sinai | Ten Commandments | 34%
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| Magnificent garden constructed by above | Hanging Gardens of Babylon | 33%
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| Empire of southwest Iran that conquered Mesopotamia | Persia | 33%
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| Monotheism | Mesopotamian shepherd told by God to take his family to the Promised Land | Abraham | 31%
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| He created the first set of written laws | Hammurabi | 31%
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| Unremarkable slab of rock that helped decode the above | Rosetta Stone | 31%
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| The Jews' escape from Egypt | Exodus | 30%
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| He spread Christianity widely | Paul | 30%
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| Where that person made a hijrah to | Medina | 29%
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| Belief in multiple gods that Sumerians practiced | Polytheism | 29%
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| Roman governor of Judea | Pontus Pilate | 29%
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| Area where the first civilizations arose | Sumer | 27%
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| Possibly the greatest pharaoh of all time | Ramses II | 26%
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| God of mummification and the dead | Anubis | 23%
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| Empire renowned for cruelty and iron weapons | Assyria | 23%
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| Sacred structure in Mecca | Kaa'ba | 23%
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| Greek empire that conquered Egypt | Macedonia | 23%
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| Land located south of Egypt | Nubia | 23%
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| Lord of the Underworld | Osiris | 23%
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| Religious agreement with God | Covenant | 20%
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| Lover of the above | Marc Antony | 20%
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| Mother of above | Isis | 19%
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| The first recorded story | The Epic of Gilgamesh | 19%
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| The Promised Land | Canaan | 17%
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| Sumerian form of writing | Cuneiform | 17%
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| Their most famous emperor, who learned the importance of tolerance | Cyrus the Great | 16%
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| Seafaring people who sailed in the Atlantic Ocean | Phoenicians | 16%
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| Sacred temple at the center of a city-state | Ziggurat | 16%
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| Built the single Great Pyramid | Khufu | 14%
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| Kingdom of the above that grew strong and ambitious | Kush | 14%
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| The two kingdoms of Egypt before being united (Name one) | Lower Egypt | Upper Egypt | 14%
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| The empire that the above ruled over | Akkadia | 13%
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| Allegedly the world's first emperor | Sargon the Great | 13%
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| Body of saltwater where civilizations were clustered | Persian Gulf | 11%
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| Sumerian writers | Scribes | 11%
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| Present-day country where the above was centered | Turkey | 11%
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| Probably the most famous Mesopotamian invention | Wheel | 11%
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| Female ruler who expanded trade | Hatshepsut | 10%
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| Empire who fought against the above for 15 years | Hittites | 10%
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| Brutal but effective ruler of New Babylonia | Nebuchadnezzar II | 10%
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| Organization of social status | Hierarchy | 9%
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| God of the sky and kingship | Horus | 9%
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| Group that routinely invaded and weakened Egypt | Sea Peoples | 7%
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| God of writing, medicine, math, wisdom, etc. | Thoth | 7%
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| Where internal organs were stored | Canopic Jars | 6%
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| Location of the "great" pharaoh's famous temples | Abu Simbel | 4%
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| Foreigners who ended the Middle Kingdom | Hyksos | 4%
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| Ordered construction of a pyramid and the Sphinx | Khafre | 4%
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| King who united Egypt | Menes | 4%
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| Ziggurat constructed by above | Tower of Babel | 4%
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| Pharaoh who defeated the above | Ahmose | 3%
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| Capital city built by the "great" pharaoh | Pi-Ramses | 3%
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| The above's stepson who grew bitter and angry | Thutmose III | 3%
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| Greek name for ancient Egypt | Gift of the Nile | 1%
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