| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The Greeks besieged this city in modern day Turkey for over 10 years. Homer would write a very famous book about it. | Siege of Troy | 98%
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| Persians under Xerxes defeat a coalition of Greek forces led by the Spartans commanded by King Leonidas. | Battle of Thermopylae | 84%
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| Hannibal destroys the Roman army of Lucius Aemilius Paulus and Publius Terentius Varro in what is considered one of the great masterpieces of the tactical art. | Battle of Cannae | 75%
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| Alexander the Great defeats Darius III in Mesopotamia and conquers Persia. This battle is also known as "Alexander’s Masterpiece." | Battle of Gaugamela | 75%
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| Scipio Africanus Major decisively defeats Hannibal in North Africa, ending the Second Punic War. | Battle of Zama | 73%
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| The German leader Arminius destroys the Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the forests of modern day Lower-Saxony. | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | 71%
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| Greek ships under Themistocles and Eurybiades of Sparta defeat Persian fleet in the Bay of Eleusis. | Battle of Salamis | 67%
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| Hittites sack ______ and end the First ________ dynasty, leaving the area to be occupied by their Kassite allies for centuries. | Babylon | 53%
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| The Athenian expedition in Sicily, under Nicias and Demosthenes, is annihilated. | Battle of Syracuse | 51%
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| Slave army under Spartacus defeats Romans under Gaius Claudius Glaber. | Battle of Mount Vesuvius | 25%
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