Q 01/05

The name Mesopotamia means the land 'between' what?

A) Two rivers

B) Two mountains

C) Two seas

D) Two deserts

Answer · why

A) Two rivers

The Tigris and Euphrates flow through what is now Iraq, where the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing and the wheel.

Q 02/05

Which ancient people developed cuneiform, one of the world's first writing systems?

A) The Sumerians

B) The Phoenicians

C) The Minoans

D) The Aztecs

Answer · why

A) The Sumerians

It began as picture symbols pressed into clay around the late 4th millennium BC.

Q 03/05

The Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest written law codes, comes from which region?

A) Ancient Mesopotamia

B) Ancient Egypt

C) Ancient China

D) Ancient Greece

Answer · why

A) Ancient Mesopotamia

It was composed around 1755-1750 BC and carved on a tall stone pillar.

Q 04/05

The Rosetta Stone carries the same decree in three scripts: hieroglyphs, Demotic and which language?

A) Latin

B) Ancient Greek

C) Ancient Hebrew

D) Old Persian

Answer · why

B) Ancient Greek

French soldiers found it in 1799 and Jean-François Champollion used it to crack hieroglyphs in 1822.

Q 05/05

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for which pharaoh?

A) Tutankhamun

B) Ramesses II

C) Khufu

D) Cleopatra

Answer · why

C) Khufu

It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still largely standing, and stayed the world's tallest structure for more than 3,700 year...