Ancient Mesopotamia

The cradle of civilization

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1. What does the word Mesopotamia mean?

The land between rivers ✓

The land between mountains ✓

The land between seas ✓

The land between valleys ✓

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

Iran ✓

Turkey ✓

Iraq ✓

Pakistan ✓

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

Babylonians ✓

Assyrians ✓

Sumerians ✓

Persians ✓

4. Who was Hammurabi?

King of Sumer ✓

King of Egypt ✓

King of Assyria ✓

King of Babylon ✓

5. What was Hammurabi known for?

Long beard ✓

Code of law ✓

Inventing the wheel ✓

Multiple wives ✓

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

Assyrians ✓

Babylonians ✓

Akkadians ✓

Sumerians ✓

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?

Nippur ✓

Assur ✓

Kish ✓

Nineveh ✓

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

Julius Caesar ✓

Alexander the Great ✓

Cleopatra VII ✓

Sargon the Great ✓

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

Darius I ✓

Cyrus the Great ✓

Nebuchadnezzar II ✓

Xerxes I ✓

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

Battle of Marathon ✓

Battle of Salamis ✓

Battle of Athens ✓

Battle of Thermopylae ✓

11. What was a ziggurat in Ancient Mesopotamia?

Type of vehicle ✓

Large theatre ✓

Siege weapon ✓

Temple to the local god ✓

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

Temple of Artemis ✓

Statue of Zeus ✓

Hanging Gardens ✓

Colossus ✓

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

Uruk ✓

Akkad ✓

Persepolis ✓

Babylon ✓

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

Nile and Indus ✓

Euphrates and Nile ✓

Tigris and Euphrates ✓

Indus and Tigris ✓

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

Darius I ✓

Ramses II ✓

Xerxes I ✓

Cyrus the Great ✓

16. In Sumerian literature what was Gilgamesh searching for?

Wealth ✓

Love ✓

Eternal life ✓

Meaning of life ✓

17. What is Gilgamesh according to mythology?

Dragon ✓

Lion ✓

Devil ✓

Demigod ✓

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

Humbaba ✓

Utnapishtim ✓

Enkidu ✓

Bull of Heaven ✓

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

Babylonian ✓

Greek ✓

Roman ✓

Sumerian ✓

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

Thermopylae ✓

Grancius ✓

Pydna ✓

Marathon ✓

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