Ancient Mesopotamia
This quiz will test your knowledge about the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
Questions
Which of the following is NOT a major river of Mesopotamia?
- Tigris
- Euphrates
- Nile
- Jordan
What was the name of the first major civilization to arise in Mesopotamia?
- Sumerian
- Akkadian
- Babylonian
- Assyrian
What was the capital city of the Sumerian civilization?
- Ur
- Uruk
- Nippur
- Lagash
What was the name of the famous Sumerian king who is credited with compiling the first written code of laws?
- Hammurabi
- Ur-Nammu
- Sargon of Akkad
- Gilgamesh
What was the name of the Akkadian king who conquered Mesopotamia and established the Akkadian Empire?
- Sargon of Akkad
- Naramsin
- Manishtushu
- Rimush
What was the name of the Babylonian king who is credited with building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Hammurabi
- Ur-Nammu
- Sargon of Akkad
What was the name of the Assyrian king who conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire and established the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
- Tiglath-Pileser III
- Sargon II
- Sennacherib
- Esarhaddon
What was the name of the Chaldean king who conquered the Neo-Assyrian Empire and established the Neo-Babylonian Empire?
- Nebuchadnezzar II
- Nabopolassar
- Amel-Marduk
- Neriglissar
What was the name of the Persian king who conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire and established the Persian Empire?
- Cyrus the Great
- Darius I
- Xerxes I
- Artaxerxes I
What was the name of the Greek king who conquered the Persian Empire and established the Hellenistic Empire?
- Alexander the Great
- Philip II of Macedon
- Antigonus I Monophthalmus
- Seleucus I Nicator
What was the name of the Parthian king who defeated the Seleucid Empire and established the Parthian Empire?
- Mithridates I of Parthia
- Phraates II of Parthia
- Orodes II of Parthia
- Artabanus II of Parthia
What was the name of the Sassanid king who defeated the Parthian Empire and established the Sassanid Empire?
- Ardashir I
- Shapur I
- Bahram I
- Yazdegerd I
What was the name of the Arab caliph who conquered the Sassanid Empire and established the Umayyad Caliphate?
- Umar ibn al-Khattab
- Uthman ibn Affan
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Muawiyah I
What was the name of the Abbasid caliph who overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and established the Abbasid Caliphate?
- Al-Saffah
- Al-Mansur
- Al-Mahdi
- Harun al-Rashid
What was the name of the Mongol ruler who conquered the Abbasid Caliphate and established the Ilkhanate?
- Hulagu Khan
- Kublai Khan
- Genghis Khan
- Batu Khan