11 Ancient History Palmyra & The Silk Road Revision Quiz

'Palmyra' is a Greek word meaning...

• City of date trees

• City of palms

• Grove of Silk

• Desert Oasis

Another name for Palmyra is...

• Sirene

• Mireen

• Tadmur

• Tarsis

The city of Palmyra began in Neolithic times but is known from the 19th BC but rose to prominence in...

• The first century AD

• The first century AD

• 1900 BC

• 400 AD

The main source of water in ancient Palmyra was...

• The Spring Eternal

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

• Alice Springs

• Efqa Spring

While appearing to be desert, the oasis of Palmyra is more correctly...

• A super desert

• an arid grassland steppe

• a rainforest

• none of these answers

Palmyra is located in...

• Modern-day Jordan

• Modern-day Iran

• Modern-day Iraq

• Modern-day Syria

Palmyra is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list because of...

• Its exceptional universal signficance

• The magnficance of its architecture

• Because it was an important entrepot in the ancient world through which ideas and goods transferred and cultures mixed.

• all of these answers

The red square in the image would represent which building of Palmyra?

• Lion of Allat

• Temple of Baal Shamin

• Temple of Bel Hammon

• Temple of Bel

'Pliny the Elder’ (who was an ancient Roman) described Palmyra as...

• city famous for its location, for its rich soil and for its ample springs. Its fields are surrounded on every side by a vast circuit of sand, so that nature has isolated this place from

  the rest of the world.

• city famous for its ships, for its rich soil and for its ample economy. Its fields are surrounded on every side by a vast circuit of roads, so that nature has obscured this place from the rest of the world.

• all of these answers

• none of these answers

In which years did ISIS/ISIL desecrate the site of Palmyra?

• 2018- 2020

• 2015 to 2017

• 1995- 2005

• 1997-2001