| Hint | Date of Existence | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nero, Caesar, etc | 27 BC - AD 476 | Rome | 95%
|
| Mesopotamian civilization; real hanging gardens? | 1894 BC - 539 BC | Babylon | 90%
|
| Once called Abyssinia | AD 1270 - present | Ethiopia | 90%
|
| Cuzco was its capital | AD 1438 - AD 1533 | Inca | 90%
|
| Genghis Khan was from this civilization | AD 1206 - AD 1368 | Mongols | 90%
|
| They built Angkor Wat | AD 802 - AD 1431 | Khmer | 85%
|
| Indigenous Australians; not a civilization according to Kalbahamut | 65,000 BC - present | Aboriginals | 70%
|
| China’s first unified, centralised empire | 221 BC - 206 BC | Qin | 70%
|
| Shaka is the main man from this group | AD 1816 - AD 1897 | Zulu | 65%
|
| Romanian civilization that feuded with the Romans | 82 BC - AD 106 | Dacia | 60%
|
| Mesoamerican civilization known for their stone heads | 1500 BC - 400 BC | Olmec | 60%
|
| Germanic people situated near the Rhine river | AD 481 - AD 843 | Franks | 55%
|
| The “Gold Coast” | AD 300 - present | Ghana | 55%
|
| Founded the cities of Tyre and Carthage | 1500 BC - 300 BC | Phoenicia | 55%
|
| Anatolian Indo-European people | 1600 BC - 1178 BC | Hittites | 50%
|
| One of the oldest known civilizations; located in southern Mesopotamia | 4500 BC - 1900 BC | Sumer | 50%
|
| Pacific Islander people | AD 950 - present | Tonga | 50%
|
| Most notable Islamic caliphate | AD 661 - AD 750 | Umayyad | 50%
|
| Nigerian ethnic group | AD 1000 - present | Yoruba | 40%
|
| Possibly mythical Chinese dynasty | 2070 BC - 1600 BC | Xia | 35%
|
| First “real” empire in world history | 911 BC - 609 BC | Neo-Assyria | 30%
|
| Japanese hunter-gatherer society | 14,000 BC - 300 BC | Jomon | 10%
|
| First civilization to create gold and silver coins | 12,000 BC - 546 BC | Lydia | 10%
|
| Semi-nomadic northern Indian civilization | 1500 BC - 500 BC | Vedic | 10%
|
| “Wary” major pre-Incan civilization | AD 500 - AD 1000 | Wari | 10%
|
| Civilization that developed in the Andean highlands of Peru | 900 BC - 200 BC | Chavín | 0%
|