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Ancient Mesopotamia - Statistics
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- The average score is 9 of 24
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The Eastern of those two rivers | Tigris | 85%
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| Westernmost of the two major rivers which originate in modern-day Turkey | Euphrates | 81%
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| Located just South of Baghdad, this city was originally founded by the Akkadians, before Amorite warlords made it a dominant regional power | Babylon | 76%
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| Oldest writing system in the world, consisting of wedge-shaped impressions made in clay tablets | Cuneiform | 68%
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| King of the above city in the early 18th Century BC, famous for the oldest written law code in existence | Hammurabi | 65%
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| Chalcolithic (copper age) period spanning most of the 4th Millenium BC, named for one of Sumer's oldest cities | Uruk | 54%
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| Powerful founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. Captured Babylon in 539 BC ending the story of ancient Mesopotamia | Cyrus the Great | 51%
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| Mighty founder of the Akkadian empire - the world's first true empire | Sargon of Akkad | 50%
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| Iron-Age empire whose capital cities included Nimrud and Nineveh. Dominated the entire Middle East, becoming the largest the world had ever seen | Neo-Assyrian | 49%
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| Literal meaning of the Greek word Mesopotamia | Between Rivers | 46%
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| Anatolian empire, led by King Mursili I who sacked Mari and Babylon in the early 16th Century BC | Hittite | 37%
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| Neighbouring civilisation based in the cities of Susa and Anshan in modern-day Iran. Destroyed the Sumerian empire. | Elam | 35%
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| Iranian people under King Cyaxares. Allied with the Neo-Babylonian King Nabopolassar to finally destroy the cities of ancient Assyria | Medes | 26%
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| Assyrian King famous for building a vast library | Ashurbanipal | 25%
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| Bronze age city state located in modern-day Syria, about half way between Sumer and the Levant | Mari | 19%
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| Monumental engraved stone slab, used to proclaim laws, mark boundaries or celebrate victories | Stele | 18%
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| Dynasty which controlled Babylon for the next 400 years | Kassite | 15%
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| Empire founded by Ur Nammu, also known as the Third Dynasty of Ur | Neo-Sumerian | 13%
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| Neolithic cultural period of Mesopotamia spanning around 6500 BC - 3800 BC | Ubaid | 13%
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| Hurrian-speaking state based in Northern Mesopotamia. Succeeded Yamhad and the Old Assyrian empire | Mitanni | 10%
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| Persian Gulf civilisation based around modern-day Bahrain, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Offered a trade link to India and the Indus valley cultures | Dilmun | 9%
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| Iranian nomads originating in the Zagros Mountains who ruled Sumer after the fall of the Akkadian empire | Gutians | 6%
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| Nabonidus was the final King of this dynasty, the last of the Neo-Babylonian empire. | Chaldean | 4%
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| Ensi of the city of Umma and the only King of the third dynasty of Uruk. Briefly united Sumer into a single kingdom in the 24th Century BC | Lugalzagesi | 4%
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