Cities in European History #1 - Statistics

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Hint	City	% Correct
Capital of a powerful republic that became an empire after Julius Caesar	Rome	98%
Known as the "Birthplace of Democracy"	Athens	97%
Italian city built on a lagoon which dominated Mediterranean trade in the Middle Ages	Venice	92%
Capital of the Byzantine Empire	Constantinople	90%
City home to Johann Strauss II, a composer known as the "Waltz King"	Vienna	83%
Known as the "Birthplace of the Renaissance"	Florence	82%
Defeated the above in the Peloponnesian War	Sparta	82%
Village in Belgium near where Napoleon met his final defeat	Waterloo	82%
Former Russian capital on the Neva River	St. Petersburg	81%
Site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand	Sarajevo	78%
The world's most industrialized city in the first half of the 1800s	Manchester	71%
City that the Nazis failed to capture in 1942–43, marking a turning point in WWII	Stalingrad	69%
Rival of the above where Christopher Columbus was born	Genoa	68%
Where the Titanic was built	Belfast	63%
Home to the tallest statue in the ancient world, which only stood for 54 years before collapsing during an earthquake in 226 BC	Rhodes	58%
Defenestrations in this city led to the Thirty Years War	Prague	56%
Capital of the last Muslim emirate in Spain which fell in 1492	Granada	53%
French city where popes and anti-popes resided during the Catholic schism	Avignon	51%
From 1920–1939 this Baltic port was a "free city" under the protection of the League of Nations	Gdańsk	51%
Where English archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered by Henry II	Canterbury	45%

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