Q 01/05
A) Tigris
B) Jordan
C) Nile
D) Euphrates
Answer · why
The river splits the city into Rusafa on the east bank and Karkh on the west.
Q 02/05
A) Al-Ma'mun
B) Al-Mansur
C) Al-Musta'sim
D) Harun al-Rashid
Answer · why
He was the second caliph of his dynasty and named his new city Madinat as-Salam, the City of Peace.
Q 03/05
A) Fatimid
B) Umayyad
C) Abbasid
D) Ottoman
Answer · why
The Abbasids had overthrown the Umayyads, whose capital was Damascus.
Q 04/05
A) Gift of God
B) Gate of the East
C) City of Light
D) City of Peace
Answer · why
By the 11th century Baghdad had become almost the exclusive name for the metropolis.
Q 05/05
A) Bestowed by God
B) Between two rivers
C) Fortress of the king
D) City of gardens
Answer · why
The name Mithridates, Given by Mithra, uses the same Persian element.
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