How it works
These ancient history trivia questions and answers go around the ancient world in four rounds, from the first fired pots to the end of the Punic Wars.
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Fertile Crescent trivia questions
Mesopotamia, Persia and the Fertile Crescent holds the ancient Mesopotamia trivia questions: the Uruk period, Akkadian, Assyria and Babylonia, Mitanni, then the Persians from Darius to Shapur.
Ancient civilizations trivia questions, continent by continent
Africa, South Asia and the Pacific runs from Napata and the Nok culture to the Maritime Jade Road. The last round takes in the Zhou, the Olmec, the Maya, the Bronze Age collapse and Carthage. First things: fire, pots and writing opens the pack, with early metals too.
Tips
- Ancient Egypt has a pack of its own, so only the Battle of Kadesh comes up here.
Questions and answers
What are some easy ancient history trivia questions?
Roughly how many years does recorded history span? In which land did the growing of millet and rice begin around 7000 BC? The answers are 5,000 years and China.
Which empire controlled all of the Fertile Crescent?
Assyria. As an empire it came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia. Assyria proper was roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia; the southern half was Babylonia.
Which ancient scripts are still undeciphered?
The Indus script, developed by 2800 BC, has never been read, and this pack asks it. Linear A, the script of the Minoans, is another.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Ancient history, which every question links. Population estimates and the origins of religions are not asked.