Ancient Mesopotamia

1. What does the word Mesopotamia mean?

2. In what current country is most of Ancient Mesopotamia located?

3. Who were the first humans to form a civilization?

4. Who was Hammurabi?

5. What was Hammurabi known for?

6. Which empire developed the first form of writing by using pictures for words and inscribing them on clay tablets?

7. What was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as well as the largest city in the world for several decades?

8. What ruler invaded the land and conquered the Persian Empire in 333 BC?

9. Who besieged Jerusalem in 568 BC, captured a large number of Judeans and took them to Babylon where they became slaves?

10. What was the deciding battle during the first invasion of Greece by the Persians?

11. What was a ziggurat in Ancient Mesopotamia?

12. What ancient wonder of the world had its home in Babylon?

13. What city was the center of the Sumerian civilization?

14. Ancient Mesopotamia was famously located by which two rivers?

15. Under which ruler, the Persians conquered Babylon and much of Mesopotamia?

16. In Sumerian literature what was Gilgamesh searching for?

17. What is Gilgamesh according to mythology?

18. What is the name of the wild man that the gods sent to challenge Gilgamesh, but eventually they became best friends?

19. The Persian wars were a series of wars fought between the Persians and which empire?

20. Where was the battle where 300 Spartans hold off the entire Persian army?