Historical Cities - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City burnt down by Mount Vesuvius	Pompeii	96%
Where Hannibal is from	Carthage	78%
Famous Inca ruins	Machu Picchu	74%
Built by the Nabateans, a city in Jordan known for being built into rock	Petra	63%
The first capital of Egypt founded by King Menes	Memphis	59%
Originally built as the capital of the ancient kingdom of Khmer. Known for having the largest Hindu temple that later became Buddhist	Angkor	56%
Capital of the Aztec empire, (former name of Mexico city)	Tenochtitlan	56%
Menelaus, enraged by the abduction of his wife, sought the help of his brother Agamemnon, destroyed this city	Troy	56%
Where a tower to reach God was built, and is featured in a Boney M song	Babylon	48%
Persian ceremonial capital, burned by Alexander the Great.	Persepolis	41%
The other one burnt by Mount Vesuvius	Herculaneum	37%
Also was Egypt's capital, with its remains in Luxor	Thebes	33%
Capital of the Minoans, an ancient city in modern day Cyprus	Knossus	22%
The capital of the Assyrian Empire, once stood as one of the world’s largest cities in the 7th century BCE, but was destroyed by the Babylonians	Nineveh	19%
Where Alexander the Great was Born	Pella	15%
Named after King Midas's father, and famous for a knot problem, solved byalexander the great	Gordium	11%
In Libya, Founded by the Phoenicians, and has been part of the Carthaginian empire, and roman empire.	Leptis Magna	4%
City where Lots wife was turned into a pilar of salt	Sodom and Gommorah	4%
A wealthy Greek city swallowed by the sea after an earthquake in 373 BCE, sometimes called the “real Atlantis.”	Helike	0%
Last great capital of the Mayan Civilisation	Mayapan	0%
A Roman city built by Emperor Trajan in Algeria	Timgad	0%

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