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Ancient Mesopotamia A-Z - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 238 times
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Finish the title: Hanging Gardens of ________ | Babylon | 96%
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| One of the two rivers forming Mesopotamia | Euphrates | 92%
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| Modern-day country now home to the Fertile Crescent | Iraq | 91%
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| Legendary King of Babylon known for his legal code | Hammurabi | 89%
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| Protagonist of the earliest known work of literatue (Epic of ________) | Gilgamesh | 88%
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| Very early form of writing found in several Mesopotamian civilizations | Cuneiform | 82%
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| Mesopotamia is Greek for "land between two _______) | Rivers | 82%
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| Counterpart of answer E | Tigris | 81%
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| History's first known civilization, known for pioneering answer C | Sumer | 76%
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| Ancient city founded around 3000 BCE, currently the capital of Syria | Damascus | 74%
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| Mesopotamia's first empire (2334 BCE - 2154 BCE), notably ruled by Sargon | Akkad | 71%
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| Term for Mesopotamian "pyramids" or religious structures; a well known one is found in answer U | Ziggurat | 66%
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| What answer C is a form of | Writing | 64%
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| Sparse pockets of water found in the deserts of Mesopotamian desert (also the name of a rock band) | Oasis | 63%
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| Form of religion with one god which emerged in answer U | Monotheism | 62%
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| Famed Persian Emperor portrayed by Rodrigo Santoro in the somewhat dubious film "300" | Xerxes | 60%
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| Ancient city home to the patriarch Abraham, lending its name to answer I | Uruk | 58%
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| Ruined city found in Jordan that famously made an appearance in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" | Petra | 54%
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| Kingdom conquered by the civilization in answer B | Judea | 47%
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| Mesopotamians fermented this form of fungus to produce the earliest known beer in history | Yeast | 45%
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| Neo-Babylonian King who destroyed answer J | Nebuchadnezzar | 44%
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| Indigenous group known to inhabit northern Mesopotamia, seeking to have their own state | Kurds | 42%
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| (Term for female ruler) ______ Puabi was possibly the first female ruler in recorded history, reigning in the city of Ur | Queen | 41%
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| Form of mythological destruction story found in Mesopotamia and many subsequent civilizations relating to water | Floods | 35%
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| Silver became a prominent standard of ___ across several Mesopotamian civilizations | Value | 23%
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| Celestial beings with human heads, bull bodies, and eagle wings, commonly found guarding Assyrian cities in statue forms | Lamassu | 15%
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