Early History

Question 1

Who were the two people to first develop a hypothesis of the sea people?

Answer 1

Emmanuel de Rouge & Gaston Maspero

Question 2

What are Sumerian gods called?

Answer 2

Anunnaki

Question 3

Who is the chief of the Anunnaki?

Answer 3

An

Question 4

What is An’s Akkadian name?

Answer 4

Anu

Question 5

Who was the Sumerian God of storms, wind, air, earth and storms?

Answer 5

Enlil

Question 6

Who was Enlils wife?

Answer 6

Ninlil

Question 7

What is a Me (meh)

Answer 7

A divine decree or divine power

Question 8

Who created writing in Egyptian mythology?

Answer 8

Thoth

Question 9

What Celestial body is Thoth a God of?

Answer 9

The Moon

Question 10

What bird is Thoths head?

Answer 10

An Ibis

Question 11

Who was Thoths wife?

Answer 11

Ma’at

Question 12

Who was Thoths feminine counterpart?

Answer 12

Seshat

Question 13

What is the oldest pyramid in the world?

Answer 13

The step pyramid of Djoser

Question 14

Who was the first pyramid built for?

Answer 14

Djoser

Question 15

What animal beside an Ibis is associated with Thoth?

Answer 15

Baboons

Question 16

Where was Thoths chief temple located?

Answer 16

Hermapolis

Question 17

Who was the God of Babylon?

Answer 17

Marduk

Question 18

What was the Akkadian counterpart to Enki?

Answer 18

Ea

Question 19

Who is the father of the Anunnaki?

Answer 19

An, Anu, Anum

Question 20

Who is the king the Anunnaki beside An?

Answer 20

Enki

Question 21

Where did the Akkadians start from?

Answer 21

Northern Mesopotamia

Question 22

What is the oldest known civilization?

Answer 22

Sumer

Question 23

What’s is the proper name for the copper age?

Answer 23

Chalcolithic or Eneolithic

Question 24

What’s the proper name for the stone age?

Answer 24

Neolithic

Question 25

What was the first empire?

Answer 25

The Akkadian empire

Question 26

Who founded the Akkadian Empirr?

Answer 26

Sargon the great

Question 27

When was the Akkadian empire founded?

Answer 27

2334 BCE

Question 28

When was the Akkadian empires peak?

Answer 28

24th and 22nd centuries BCE

Question 29

When did Sargon die?

Answer 29

2279 BCE

Question 30

What was Sargon before he became a king according to the king list?

Answer 30

A cup bearer

Question 31

Who was Sargon a cup bearer for?

Answer 31

King Ur-Zababa of sumer

Question 32

What was the capital of the Akkadian empire?

Answer 32

Akkad

Question 33

What was the Sumerian word for god/diety?

Answer 33

Dingir

Question 34

What was the Akkadian word for god/diety?

Answer 34

Ilu

Question 35

Who was the sumerian god of the sun?

Answer 35

Utu

Question 36

What is the Akkadian name for Utu?

Answer 36

Shamash

Question 37

Who is there Sumerian god the moon?

Answer 37

Nanna

Question 38

What is Nannas Akkadian name?

Answer 38

Sin

Question 39

What is considered to be the first proper city?

Answer 39

Uruk

Question 40

Who is the sumerian god of love, sex & war?

Answer 40

Inanna

Question 41

What are the two categories of Sumerian gods?

Answer 41

Anunnaki & Igigi

Question 42

What is the most famous and complete account of the Sumerian creation myth?

Answer 42

Enuma Elish

Question 43

Who is the creator diety in Sumerian myth?

Answer 43

Nammu

Question 44

According to Atrahasis which God flooded humanity?

Answer 44

Enlil

Question 45

Who saved humanity by saving Atrahasis?

Answer 45

Enki

Question 46

What is the underworld called in the Hebrew Bible?

Answer 46

Sheol

Question 47

Who is the king of the Sumerian gods?

Answer 47

Enlil

Question 48

Which modern country is the ancient city of Ur located?

Answer 48

Iraq

Question 49

What is the ealiest period the city of Ur dates back to?

Answer 49

The Ubaid period

Question 50

What was Ur's patron diety?

Answer 50

Nanna

Question 51

When was the Ziggurat of Ur built?

Answer 51

Around 2,100 BCE

Question 52

Who was the first recorded king of Ur?

Answer 52

King Tuttues

Question 53

Who was King when the Ziggurat of Ur was built?

Answer 53

Ur-Nammu

Question 54

When was the Ziggurat of Ur rebuilt?

Answer 54

6th century BCE

Question 55

Who rebuilt the Ziggurat of Ur?

Answer 55

King Nabonidus

Question 56

Who was the last king of babylon?

Answer 56

Nabonidus

Question 57

Who is commonly recognized as the first "modern" archeologist?

Answer 57

Sir Charles Leonerd Woolley

Question 58

What is Leonerd Woolley well known for?

Answer 58

His excavation at Ur

Question 59

What is the Ubaid period?

Answer 59

A prehistoric period of Mesopotamia

Question 60

When does the Ubaid period begin?

Answer 60

5,500 BCE

Question 61

In which half of Mesopotamia did the ubaid period last longer, north or south?

Answer 61

Southern Mesopotamia

Question 62

When did the Ubaid period end in Southern Mesopotamia?

Answer 62

3,800 BCE

Question 63

When did the Ubaid Period end in northern Mesopotamia?

Answer 63

4,300 BCE

Question 64

Who was the first Babylonian king of the firs dynasty?

Answer 64

Sumu-abum

Question 65

What ethnicity was Sumu-abum?

Answer 65

Amorite

Question 66

When was Sumer first settled?

Answer 66

5,500 BCE maybe

Question 67

Wh

Question 68

When was Rome founded?

Answer 68

753 BCE

Question 69

How long did the Roman monarchy last?

Answer 69

244 years

Question 70

Who were the founders if rome?

Answer 70

Romulus and Remus

Question 71

Who was the first king of Rome?

Answer 71

Romulus

Question 72

Who was the second king of Rome?

Answer 72

Numa Pompillius

Question 73

When was the last roman king expelled?

Answer 73

509 BCE

Question 74

How many roman kings were there?

Answer 74

7

Question 75

What is paganism?

Answer 75

It is a term used by christians in the 4th century for people who practiced polytheism in the Roman empire

Question 76

When did Anubia get replaced by Osiris?

Answer 76

Around 2,000-1,700 BCE during the middle Kingdom

Question 77

What is an Ankh?

Answer 77

It's an Egyptian that symbolizes life, immortality and rebirth