Ancient History by Letter ‘S’ - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Athenian philosopher, forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock	Socrates	93%
Ancient Greek city on the Peloponnese peninsula, deadly rivals to Athens	Sparta	78%
Age comprised of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods	Stone Age	76%
Transportation route linking China with India and the Middle East	Silk Road	71%
Circular neolithic monument in Southern England	Stonehenge	66%
Birth name of The Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama	46%
Ancient Indo-European language, used to compose the Rig Vedas	Sanskrit	44%
Roman general who defeated Hannibal and Carthage	Scipio Africanus	40%
Cradle of civilisation, included the cities of Eridu, Ur and Lagash	Sumer	39%
Mysterious group of invaders who contributed to the Late Bronze Age Collapse	Sea People	31%
Roman stoic philosopher, tutored Nero	Seneca	26%
Greek school of philosophy and ethics, founded by Zeno in the early third century BC	Stoicism	26%
Last Persian Empire before the Muslim conquest	Sassanid	25%
Governor of a Persian province	Satrap	23%
Famous dictator of the Roman Republic, retired a year before his death	Sulla	20%
Ancient capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire	Susa	19%
Ancient Chinese dynasty, ruled during the Bronze Age	Shang	18%
Horse nomads who dominated the Pontic Steppe throughout much of classical antiquity	Scythians	17%
Macedonian General, ruled over a huge territory after the death of Alexander the Great	Seleucus	17%
Last man standing in the Year of the Five Roman Emperors in 193 AD	Septimius Severus	15%
Ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel	Samaria	8%
Persian title meaning King of Kings	Shahanshah	8%
Large group of Germanic tribes from the Elbe river region	Suebi	6%
King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, destroyed Babylon and ultimately conquered most of the Levant	Sennacherib	4%
Ancient Iranian civilisation in Central Asia, located between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers	Sogdia	4%
Tribe of Cisalpine Gauls under Brennus, who won the Battle of the Allia before sacking Rome in 390 BC	Senones	2%

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