History of Mesopotamia/Iraq

Can you answer these questions about the region of Euphrates and Tigris?

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	Hint	Answer
1	Important Sumerian City, which gave Iraq its name	Uruk
2	Legendary king from this city featured in an epic poem	Gilgamesh
3	Empire founded by King Sargon, which conquered most of Sumer	Akkad
4	Babylonian code of law from ~ 1754 BCE	Code of Hammurabi
5	Besides Assur, most important city of Assyria, located inside of Mosul	Ninive
6	City, which overthrow the Neo-Assyrian Empire	Babylon
7	King, who build the Hanging Gardens in this city	Nebuchadnezzar II
8	Persian king, who conquered Mesopotamia in ~ 550 BCE	Cyrus II
9	Macedonian king, who conquered Persia	Alexander the Great
10	Greek Diadoch, who controlled Mesopotamia	Seleucus

	Hint	Answer
11	Capital of the Parthian and Sassanid Empire	Ktesiphon
12	People Group defeating and conquering the Sassanids in the 7. Century	Arabs
13	City, founded by the Abbasids, which became central to the Golden Age of Islam	Baghdad
14	Nomadic Empire, which killed many in this city in 1258	Mongolian Empire
15	Turkish Empire controlling Mesopotamia from the 16. Century to WWI	Ottoman Empire
16	European State gaining control of Iraq after WWI	United Kingdom
17	Founding year of the Republic of Iraq	1958
18	Dictator, who invaded Iran in 1980	Saddam Hussein
19	Another country invaded by him	Kuwait
20	Name of two US-Presidents, who declared war on the Iraq	Bush

Level 77

May 10, 2021

Good quiz

Shame you don’t accept Nineveh or Ctesiphon

Level 54

Feb 7, 2022

I missed Nebuchadnezzar II, Ninive, and Ktesiphon. I guessed Nebuchadnezzar, Nineveh, and Ctesiphon.

Level 59

Feb 2, 2023

I concur with the above comments. Do the complexity of the spelling, i suggest just “Nebuch” to be accepted, similar to how Ouaga is accepted for Ouagadougou on COTW. The name Nineveh should also be accepted, as this is what it is mostly known as.