I'm working on a trivia game with friends and I asked people to give me specific categories they want to be quizzed on. Somebody chose Ancient Civilizations. I know basics, but I figured reddit would know more and I was hoping y'all could help. I'm looking for medium to hard level and answers given with them as well.

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Thank you in advance!

I’m doing a paper for my history class on Cyrus of Persia. The prompt is; does Cyrus of Persia deserve the title “great”? What did he do that gave him that title, and how has it contributed to modern-day society? It’s not just referring to his life in the past, it’s also asking if Cyrus existed now, would he still be considered great in the 21st century considering all his misdeeds. Also I am NOT LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO WRITE MY ESSAY! I just want to hear other, more knowledgeable people’s opinions on the topic, Thanks!!

I was wondering if there were any kind of a true-to-size recreation of ancient monuments supervised by historians to explore and allow the public to get a grasp of architecture from ancient history.

If you, for one day, could resurrect and talk to one historic individual from the BC era, whether it be a famous ruler or even just an ordinary citizen, who would it be? Where were they from? What would you like to know about them? How much of their language could we understand today? Personally, I would like to talk to Iry Hor. I’d love to hear about who he was and who all he knew in life. I’d also like to know what he’d think of all the jokes I’ve heard made about his name, haha. But anyway, I’m just curious, who would you meet?

We are three kings and four episodes deep now, check out the astonishingly violent Neo-Assyrian empire as it rises to power. The framework is the kings and conquests, but from this we get to take long side tracks to consider why the empire grew the way it did, the effect it had on the people and the ancient world, and what it meant for ancient culture.

You can start out on Spotify or Youtube, but the Oldest Stories podcast is available pretty much anywhere. This series starts with episode 139: An Iron King for an Iron Age.

This is well into year 5 of the show, and while we have only just started doing video stuff, the podcast has gotten pretty in-depth covering Sumer and Akkad, the Isin-Larsa period, Old Babylon, the Hittites, Historical Israel, and plenty of other stuff as well. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Temple of Venus, Chichén Itzá

This is a photo of a piece of art on one of the temples in Chichén Itzá. (Specifically the Temple of Venus). I'd like to know if anyone has any idea what colors were in this and what it looked like over a thousand years ago.