| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What was Hammurabi known for? | Code of law | 93%
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| What does the word Mesopotamia mean? | The land between rivers | 91%
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| What ancient wonder of the world had its home in Babylon? | Hanging Gardens | 87%
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| Who were the first humans to form a civilization? | Sumerians | 85%
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| Ancient Mesopotamia was famously located by which two rivers? | Tigris and Euphrates | 85%
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| In what current country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located? | Iraq | 83%
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| What was a ziggurat in Ancient Mesopotamia? | Temple to the local god | 82%
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| What is Gilgamesh according to mythology? | Demigod | 77%
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| What ruler invaded the land and conquered the Persian Empire in 333 BC? | Alexander the Great | 74%
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| Who was Hammurabi? | King of Babylon | 72%
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| What city was the center of the Sumerian civilization? | Uruk | 65%
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| Who besieged Jerusalem in 568 BC, captured a large number of Judeans and took them to Babylon where they became slaves? | Nebuchadnezzar II | 64%
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| Which empire developed the first form of writing by using pictures for words and inscribing them on clay tablets? | Sumerians | 64%
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| In Sumerian literature what was Gilgamesh searching for? | Eternal life | 62%
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| Where was the battle where 300 Spartans hold off the entire Persian army? | Thermopylae | 57%
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| Under which ruler, the Persians conquered Babylon and much of Mesopotamia? | Cyrus the Great | 55%
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| What is the name of the wild man that the gods sent to challenge Gilgamesh, but eventually they became best friends? | Enkidu | 54%
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| What was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades? | Nineveh | 52%
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| The Persian wars were a series of wars fought between the Persians and which empire? | Greek | 49%
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| What was the deciding battle during the first invasion of Greece by the Persians? | Battle of Marathon | 39%
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