About Ancient Civilizations Quiz
Time-travel through Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, China, India and the ancient Americas. The Ancient Civilizations Quiz asks about the pharaohs and their pyramids, the first cities and the invention of writing, Greek thinkers and Roman emperors, the Great Wall, and the Maya, Aztec and Inca, who built great cities with their own calendars and record-keeping systems. Legendary stories are marked as legends, and the explanations show how historians know what they know. The easy questions start with the Nile and the pharaohs, and the hard ones reach architects and kings that only keen readers will know.
How to play Ancient Civilizations Quiz
- Press Start for the first of ten questions. The clock starts with it and stops at your last answer.
- Each question asks about Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, China, India or the ancient Americas.
- Tap an answer, or press 1 to 4 (or A to D) on a keyboard. Answers are final: you see the right one and a one-line explanation, then press Next.
- Most correct answers ranks first, then the fastest time. Only a member’s first finished quiz of the day counts for the leaderboard.
Tips & strategy
- Link each civilization to its river: the Nile for Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates for Mesopotamia, the Indus for the Indus Valley and the Yellow River for early China.
- Writing systems are strong clues: hieroglyphs for Egypt, cuneiform for Mesopotamia, knotted quipu strings for the Inca.
- Remember that “ancient” spans thousands of years: the pyramids of Giza were already old when Rome was founded.
Ancient Civilizations Quiz: questions and answers
Which civilizations are in the quiz?
Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Persia, China, India and the civilizations of the Americas, such as the Maya, Aztec and Inca.
How are legends handled?
Stories that may be legend, such as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, are worded as legends or as debated, so the answer is still a fact.
How many questions does the Ancient Civilizations Quiz have?
158 checked questions: 39 easy, 67 medium and 52 hard. Each day takes ten, easiest first, and a question doesn’t come back until its level has been used up.