History of Mesopotamia/Iraq - Statistics

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
4	Babylonian code of law from ~ 1754 BCE	Code of Hammurabi	83%
9	Macedonian king, who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great	81%
3	Empire founded by King Sargon, which conquered most of Sumer	Akkad	78%
2	Legendary king from this city featured in an epic poem	Gilgamesh	77%
1	Important Sumerian City, which gave Iraq its name	Uruk	74%
6	City, which overthrow the Neo-Assyrian Empire	Babylon	69%
8	Persian king, who conquered Mesopotamia in ~ 550 BCE	Cyrus II	68%
16	European State gaining control of Iraq after WWI	United Kingdom	66%
15	Turkish Empire controlling Mesopotamia from the 16. Century to WWI	Ottoman Empire	64%
20	Name of two US-Presidents, who declared war on the Iraq	Bush	60%
18	Dictator, who invaded Iran in 1980	Saddam Hussein	59%
19	Another country invaded by him	Kuwait	58%
14	Nomadic Empire, which killed many in this city in 1258	Mongolian Empire	57%
13	City, founded by the Abbasids, which became central to the Golden Age of Islam	Baghdad	55%
12	People Group defeating and conquering the Sassanids in the 7. Century	Arabs	45%
5	Besides Assur, most important city of Assyria, located inside of Mosul	Ninive	42%
7	King, who build the Hanging Gardens in this city	Nebuchadnezzar II	37%
10	Greek Diadoch, who controlled Mesopotamia	Seleucus	31%
17	Founding year of the Republic of Iraq	1958	28%
11	Capital of the Parthian and Sassanid Empire	Ktesiphon	16%

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