Question 1
Which two rivers gave the ancient land between them its Greek name, meaning “between rivers”?
- Tigris and Euphrates
- Indus and Ganges
- Nile and Jordan
- Danube and Rhine
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Tigris and Euphrates
History · Ancient History
Mesopotamia trivia quiz
Mesopotamia trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 Mesopotamia questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the Mesopotamia questions cover
- Neo-Assyria
- Akkadian Empire
- Ur III
- Kassites
- Lagash
- Legal Codes
- Mari
- Neo-Babylonian
- Old Babylonian
- Persian Conquest
- Assyria
- Babylon
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Question 2
Most of the ancient land of Sumer, Akkad, and Babylonia lies within which modern country?
- Turkey
- Iraq
- Greece
- Egypt
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Iraq
Question 3
Which people are widely credited with creating one of the world's earliest urban civilizations in southern Mesopotamia?
- Minoans
- Phoenicians
- Sumerians
- Spartans
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Sumerians
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- Seven rounds. The same seven Mesopotamia questions for you and your opponent.
- Ten seconds each. A right answer in two seconds scores 20; at the buzzer, 11.
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