Mesopotamia

Question 1

Euphrates River Location

Answer 1

The lower river of the pair on the map

Question 2

What was the Beer Rationing Tablet

Answer 2

It was a form of accounting beer in which they inscribed marks using a stylus. It is known as one of the oldest forms of writing.

Question 3

What was the White Temple?

Answer 3

It was a temple built to the god Anu. It sat on top of a ziggurat and contained some of the earliest writing inside.

Question 4

What was the Standard of Ur?

Answer 4

It was a piece of art that displayed the hierarchy of power in ancient Mesopotamia. There were two sides, one of peace and one of war. On the peace side, the lower citizens brought food and gifts to their King, the largest person at the top of the piece. The other side showed the people in battle and how they would protect and fight alongside their king.

Question 5

What was the Stele Code of Hammurabi?

Answer 5

The piece was a script of the law code created by Hammurabi. Above the script was an image of Hammurabi and a god. The god is giving items to Hammurabi, displaying that his word comes from the gods.

Question 6

What was the Ishtar Gate of Babylon?

Answer 6

The Ishtar Gate was dedicated to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar (also known as Inanna), associated with love, war, and fertility.

Question 7

What site features monumental buildings prior to the adoption of agriculture?

Answer 7

Gobekli Tepe

Question 8

When was the Beer Rationing Tablet created?

Answer 8

3100-3000 BCE

Question 9

When was the Ziggurat and White Temple created?

Answer 9

4000 BCE

Question 10

When was the Standard of Ur created?

Answer 10

2600-2400 BCE

Question 11

When was the Stele Code of Hammurabi created?

Answer 11

1755-1750 BCE

Question 12

When was the Ishtar Gate of Babylon created?

Answer 12

569 BCE

Question 13

Who created the Beer Rationing Tablet?

Answer 13

Sumerians

Question 14

Who created Ziggurats and the White Temple?

Answer 14

Sumerians

Question 15

Tigris River Location

Answer 15

The upper river of the pair on the map

Question 16

Jericho Location

Answer 16

City closest to the Mediterranean Sea, far west

Question 17

Gobekli Tepe Location

Answer 17

Northernmost city, in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Question 18

Babylon Location

Answer 18

Placed where the rivers also meet, in between the rivers.

Question 19

Uruk Location

Answer 19

Southern Mesopotamia closest to Ur. North part of the Euphrates.

Question 20

Ur Location

Answer 20

Southern Mesopotamia closes to Uruk. South part of the Euphrates

Question 21

Susa Location

Answer 21

Eastern most city

Question 22

Where was the Beer Rationing Tablet found?

Answer 22

Uruk

Question 23

Where was the Ziggurats and White Temple found?

Answer 23

Uruk

Question 24

Where was the Standard of Ur?

Answer 24

Ur

Question 25

Where was the Stele Code of Hammurabi?

Answer 25

Babylon

Question 26

Where was the Ishtar Gate located?

Answer 26

Babylon

Question 27

What was a ziggurat?

Answer 27

A pyramidal, temple tower made of mud-brick and found in Mesopotamia.

Question 28

Who created the Standard of Ur?

Answer 28

Sumerians

Question 29

Who created the Stele Code of Hammurabi?

Answer 29

Babylonians

Question 30

Who created the Ishtar Gate?

Answer 30

Neo-Babylonians

Question 31

Who was Gilgamesh?

Answer 31

King of Uruk who went on many quests.

Question 32

Who was Enkidu?

Answer 32

Man created as companion for Gilgamesh

Question 33

Who was Humbaba?

Answer 33

Giant appointed by Enlil to protect the Cedar Forest, killed by Gilgamesh and Enkidu

Question 34

Who was Ishtar in the Epic of Gilgamesh?

Answer 34

The goddess of love. She proposed to Gilgamesh who rejected her by stating the condition of all her past lovers. She sent the Bull of Heavens to attack the duo, but they killed it.

Question 35

Who was Enlil?

Answer 35

Sumerian god of storms and air. Created the great flood

Question 36

Who was Utnapishtim?

Answer 36

A man tasked by the gods to abandon all worldly possessions and build a boat A bring along his family, important people and animals and after waiting on a mountain, the gods came, because he preserved life and trusted the gods, he and his wife gained god status and immortality

Question 37

When was Gilgamesh king?

Answer 37

2900-2350 BCE

Question 38

When was the Standard Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh written?

Answer 38

1300-1100 BCE

Question 39

When was The Epic of Gilgamesh collected in Assurbanipal's library?

Answer 39

700 BCE

Question 40

When did the Sumerians rule first?

Answer 40

3000-2350 BCE

Question 41

When did the Akkadians rule?

Answer 41

2350-2100 BCE

Question 42

When did the Sumerians rule a second time?

Answer 42

2100-2000 BCE

Question 43

When was the Old Assyrian Period/ Old Babylonian Period?

Answer 43

2000-1700 BCE

Question 44

When was the Middle Assyrian/Babylonian Period

Answer 44

1600-1200 BCE

Question 45

When was the Bronze Age Collapse and the start of the Iron Age?

Answer 45

1200-1000 BCE

Question 46

When was the Neo-Babylonian Empire?

Answer 46

611 BCE

Question 46

When did the Neo-Assyrian Empire conquer Babylon?

Answer 46

750-612 BCE

Question 47

When was Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Period?

Answer 47

331-133 BCE

Question 48

When was the Parthian Empire?

Answer 48

141 BCE - 224 CE

Question 49

When was the Persian Empire?

Answer 49

559-331 BCE