Ancient Cities Chain Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City founded in 753 BC, supposedly by two brothers	Rome	78%
City founded on the site of the Egyptian city Rhacotis	Alexandria	74%
Ancient Greek city on an island of the same name, home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	Rhodes	70%
Important Phoenician city that may have been the oldest	Sidon	70%
Two-letter Sumerian city with a well-preserved ziggurat	Ur	70%
City-state that lead the Delian League	Athens	65%
One of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the capitals of the Umayyad Caliphate	Damascus	61%
One of the cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, and in modern times the largest city in Palestine	Gaza	61%
One of the capitals of the Neo-Assyrian Empire	Nineveh	61%
The dominant city of the Peloponnesian League	Sparta	61%
Capital of the Seleucid Empire between 240 and 63 BC and later known as "the cradle of Christianity"	Antioch	57%
The first capital of Assyria	Aššur	52%
Ancient city in Ethiopia known for its obelisks	Axum	52%
One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China	Nanjing	52%
One of the main cities of the Sogdians, and later the first capital of the Timurid Empire	Samarkand	48%
Capital of Elam, and one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire	Susa	48%
Political centre of the Minoan civilisation	Knossos	43%
Sumerian city that is thought to have been the largest city in the world in around 3100 BC	Uruk	43%
Ancient Greek city once located on the site of a modern Ukrainian city	Odessos	39%
Capital of the Hittite Empire	Hattusa	35%
City in Roman Libya that was the birthplace of Septimius Severus	Leptis Magna	35%
Indus Valley city which contains a building known as the "Great Granary"	Mohenjo-daro	30%
The hill on which this Middle Eastern city's citadel sits has been inhabited since at least the middle of the 3rd millennium BC	Aleppo	26%
Capital of Lydia	Sardis	22%
The Romans fought the Carthaginians and the Sardinians near this city in Sardinia during the First Punic War	Olbia	17%
City near Lake Titicaca that was the capital of a civilisation located in modern Bolivia, Chile and Peru	Tiwanaku	13%
This Greek city-state was ruled by Pheidon in the 7th century, and during his reign the city was at its most powerful	Argos	9%
Egyptian city home to a temple built during the Ptolemaic period, dedicated to Horus	Edfu	9%
City in Upper Mesopotamia that was also known as Carrhae, and was one of the capital of both the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate	Harran	9%
Ancient Egyptian city also known as Crocodilopolis, and now known as Faiyum	Shedet	4%

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