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1. This word means 'land between the rivers'. What is the word and to which rivers does it refer?
Answer: Mesopotamia; Tigris and Euphrates
2. In which modern day country does Mesopotamia lie?
Answer: Iraq
3. Which ancient Middle Eastern civilization invented the wheel?
Answer: Sumerians
4. What is the name of the Sumerian writing system, and who translated it in the 19th century?
Answer: Cuneiform; Henry Rawlinson
5. Which Sumerian and later Akkadian poem has a great king searching for immortality?
Answer: Epic of Gilgamesh
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