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The 2nd Millennium BC - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 11,482 times
11,391 since last reset
- The average score is 11 of 17
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| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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| c. 1050 BC | The Phoenicians invent the first one of these, consisting of 22 characters from ālep to taw | Alphabet | 96%
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| 1323 BC | This pharaoh dies at age 18. His tomb would be discovered in 1922 AD. | Tutankhamun | 94%
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| 1045 BC | The earliest mentions of this capital city, then known as Jicheng | Beijing | 91%
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| c. 1300 BC | This age of history begins, coming after the Bronze Age | {Iron} Age | 89%
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| c. 2000 BC | This huge mammal goes extinct, with the last population existing on Russia's Wrangel Island | Mammoth | 88%
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| c. 1470 BC | The Minoan civilization on this island begins to decline | Crete | 87%
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| c. 1200 BC | The earliest evidence of this nation of people who worship Yahweh | Israel | 86%
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| c. 1250 BC | This city in modern-day Turkey is destroyed by Greek invaders, later recounted in Homer's "Iliad" | Troy | 81%
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| 1213 BC | This "great" Egyptian pharaoh dies after a reign of 66 years | Ramses II | 72%
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| 1700 BC | With a population of 60,000, this city on the Euphrates river is possibly the largest in the entire world | Babylon | 66%
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| c. 1792– 1750 BC | This legal code is created, calling for "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" | Code of {Hammurabi} | 61%
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| c. 2000 BC | The first evidence of wheels that have these, enabling them to be much lighter | {Spoke}s | 59%
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| c. 1200 BC | Sailing out of the Mediterranean, the Phoenicians found this modern-day capital | Lisbon | 52%
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| 1250 BC | The earliest examples of this language are written on bones or turtle shells and are used to predict the future | Chinese | 37%
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| c. 2000 BC | This group of people starts to migrate into India, possibly subjugating the native Dravidian population | Indo-{Aryan}s | 33%
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| c. 1600 BC | A gigantic volcanic eruption destroys much of this Greek island, possibly inspiring the legend of Atlantis | Santorini | 29%
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| c. 1350 BC | This Greek city reaches its peak with a population of around 30,000. At the time, it controlled much of modern-day Greece. | Mycenae | 19%
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