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Ancient City by Letter - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 47 times
- The average score is 10 of 26
Answer Stats
| Letter | Description | City | % Correct |
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| C | City-state that controlled large parts of the coastline of the western Mediterranean. | Carthage | 95%
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| B | Capital of an ancient state of the same name, and later one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire | Babylon | 86%
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| F | City established by Julius Caesar in 59 BC as a home for his veteran soldiers, which later became one of the centres of the Renaissance. | Florentia | 86%
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| R | According to legend, this city was founded by two brothers, a Trojan refugee or a Greek hero from Arcadia. | Rome | 84%
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| D | Sacred precinct that served as the seat of the oracle called the Pythia. | Delphi | 77%
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| J | A city that is potentially the oldest in the world, and had the oldest known protective wall. | Jericho | 70%
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| Q | City founded by the Quitu culture. | Quito | 64%
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| O | City home to the shrine Sumiyoshi-taisha, founded in 211. | Osaka | 52%
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| K | The ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilisation. | Knossos | 48%
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| V | The holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism. | Varanasi | 48%
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| P | The most famous city built by the Nabataeans. | Petra | 39%
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| U | This city was said to have been ruled by Gilgamesh during the 27th century BC. | Uruk | 34%
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| S | One of the most important Phoenician cities, and potentially the oldest. It was notable for its glass manufacturing industry. | Sidon | 32%
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| A | Capital of a large kingdom that controlled parts of modern day Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. | Axum | 27%
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| L | One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. | Luoyang | 27%
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| G | Capital of Phrygia, which has a name similar to a famous knot. | Gordion | 20%
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| M | One of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, home to over 700 wells. | Mohenjo-daro | 18%
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| H | Capital of the Hittite Empire. | Hattusa | 14%
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| T | The largest city in the Americas between the years 1 and 500. | Teotihuacan | 14%
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| E | One of the oldest Mesopotamian cities. In Sumerian mythology, it was once the home of the water god Enki. | Eridu | 9%
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| I | Town and fortress in Roman Britain built on the site of modern Exeter. | Isca Dumnoniorum | 9%
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| W | This ancient Egyptian city was known to the ancient Greeks as Thebes, but was known to the ancient Egyptians as... | Waset | 5%
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| X | Capital of the Qin dynasty. | Xianyang | 5%
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| N | The first permanent Greek colony in Egypt. | Naucratis | 2%
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| Y | Maya city that was a major rival of the cities Tikal and Palenque. | Yaxchilan | 2%
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| Z | This city was the capital of the Himyarite Kingdom until the 4th century, when it was replaced by Sana'a. | Zafar | 2%
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