The 1st and 2nd Century BC - Statistics

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
4 BC	Possible date for the birth of this important religious figure	Jesus Christ	97%
c. 52 BC	The Romans found this city on the river Seine	Lutetia (Paris)	86%
2nd century BC	This trade route network connecting Europe with China begins to be used	Silk Road	85%
30 BC	This last Egyptian pharaoh commits suicide. Later legends would say an asp was involved.	Cleopatra	83%
before 150 BC	The Romans invent this building material	Concrete	76%
44 BC	Julius Caesar is assassinated on this day of the year	The Ides of March	74%
200 BC–1 BC	Pakistan is ruled by people speaking this language, left over from Alexander’s conquests	Greek	73%
146 BC	The Third Punic War ends with the complete destruction of this city	Carthage	72%
c. 160 BC	First celebration of this Jewish holiday marking the repurification of the Temple and candles which miraculously burned for 8 days	Hanukkah	69%
73–71 BC	This gladiator leads a rebellion of an estimated 120,000 slaves	Spartacus	69%
50–58 BC	Julius Caesar conquers this region. Ancient sources say a million Celts were killed with another million enslaved.	Gaul	67%
c. 150 BC	Alexandros of Antioch creates this famous, now armless, statue	{Venus} de Milo	64%
4 BC	Death of this king of Judea, known for the biblical (but not historical) Massacre of the Innocents	Herod the Great	59%
1st century BC	This “ism” becomes the official ideology of the Chinese state	Confucianism	55%
2nd century BC	Liu An invents this pressed bean curd product	Tofu	44%
1st century BC	King Mithridates of Pontus ingests sub-lethal doses of this poison to build up a tolerance	Arsenic	42%
18 BC	First mention of this capital city on the Han River	Seoul	35%
53 BC	This wealthiest of Roman citizens loses his army and his life trying to conquer the Parthian Empire	Marcus Crassus	29%

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