Mesopotamian History

Question 1

What was the name of the first major empire of Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

Sumer

Question 2

What was the name of the first city of Sumer?

Answer 2

Uruk

Question 3

Nippur, Kish and Eridu were cities in which empire?

Answer 3

Sumer

Question 4

Who was the first recorded king of Sumer?

Answer 4

Etana of Kish

Question 5

Who was the father of Gilgamesh?

Answer 5

Lugalbanda

Question 6

Where did Mesopotamian gods reside?

Answer 6

The Cedar Forest

Question 7

Which Akkadian king defeated the Sumerian empire?

Answer 7

Sargon

Question 8

What was the name of the first recorded law code?

Answer 8

Ur-Nammu (akkadian)

Question 9

Which group sacked Babylon and conquered the Babylonians?

Answer 9

Hittites

Question 10

Which group took control of Babylon shortly after the Hittites?

Answer 10

Kassites

Question 11

What was the capital of the Assyrians?

Answer 11

Nimrud

Question 12

In which empire was the world’s first library founded, and by whom?

Answer 12

The Assyrian Empire by Ashurbanipal

Question 13

Which Assyrian king built the Ishtar Gate and Hanging gardens of Bablyon?

Answer 13

Nebuchadnezzar

Question 14

Which Persian/Achaemenid Emperor seized power during the reign of Nabonidus (Neo-babylonian) in 539BC?

Answer 14

Cyrus II

Question 15

Who was the god of wisdom and magic?

Answer 15

Ea/Enki

Question 16

Who was the god of the sky?

Answer 16

Shu

Question 17

Who was the god of the earth?

Answer 17

Enlil

Question 18

Who founded the bablyonian 2nd dynasty (Sealand)?

Answer 18

Hammurabi