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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Ancient Sparta

Which Spartan king defeated the Argives at the Battle of Sepeia around 494 BCE?

Answer

Cleomenes I

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Ancient Sparta

Which Spartan queen was the daughter of King Cleomenes I and wife of Leonidas I?

Answer

Gorgo

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Ancient Sparta

Who was the last king of Sparta in antiquity?

Answer

Nabis

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• Ancient Sparta

Which 222 BCE battle ended Cleomenes III’s reign in Sparta?

Answer

Battle of Sellasia

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• Ancient Sparta

Which Spartan poet composed the martial elegies traditionally linked with hoplite warfare?

Answer

Tyrtaeus

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• Ancient Sparta

Which Spartan king was killed at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BCE?

Answer

Leonidas I

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• Ancient Sparta

What was the name of Sparta’s citizens’ assembly?

Answer

Apella

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• Ancient Mesopotamia

In ancient Mesopotamian religion, what Akkadian name was used for the Sumerian goddess Inanna?

Answer

Ishtar

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• Ancient Mesopotamia

Which Lagash ruler commissioned the Stele of the Vultures after defeating Umma?

Answer

Eannatum

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• Ancient Mesopotamia

What was the Sumerian term for a school where scribes learned to read and write?

Answer

Edubba

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• Ancient Mesopotamia

What is the name of the Babylonian clay tablet often called the oldest known world map?

Answer

Imago Mundi

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• Ancient Mesopotamia

Which ancient Mesopotamian ruler introduced a reform edict known as the Code of Urukagina?

Answer

Urukagina

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