Famous Ancient Battles - Statistics

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Year	War	Modern-Day Country	Leaders	Answer	% Correct
480 BC	Second Persian invasion of Greece	Greece	Xerxes I / Leonidas I	Battle of Thermopylae	80%
490 BC	First Persian invasion of Greece	Greece	Darius I - Datis / Militades the Younger	Battle of Marathon	76%
1400 BC	Israelite invasion of Canaan	Israel	Joshua / King of Jericho	Battle of Jericho	56%
149 BC	Third Punic War	Tunisia	Scipio Africanus the Younger / Hasdrubal	Siege of Carthage	56%
410 AD	Visigothic invasion of the Roman Empire	Italy	Alaric I / Honorius	Sack of Rome	55%
587 BC	Kingdom of Judah's revolt against Babylon	Israel	Nebuchadnezzar II / Zedekiah	Siege of Jerusalem	54%
70 AD	Jewish-Roman War	Israel	Titus / Simon bar Giora	Siege of Jerusalem	54%
480 BC	Second Persian invasion of Greece	Greece (Saronic Gulf)	Xerxes I / Themistocles	Battle of Salamis	53%
63 BC	Third Mithridatic War	Israel	Pompey the Great / Aristobulus II	Siege of Jerusalem	53%
216 BC	Second Punic War	Italy	Hannibal / Gaius Varro	Battle of Cannae	49%
202 BC	Second Punic War	Tunisia	Scipio Africanus / Hannibal	Battle of Zama	37%
331 BC	Macedonian conquest of Persia	Iraq	Alexander the Great / Darius III	Battle of Gaugamela	35%
31 BC	Civil war between Octavian and Mark Antony	Greece (Ionian sea)	Octavian, Marcus Agrippa / Mark Antony, Cleopatra	Battle of Actium	34%
1274 BC	Syrian campaign of Ramesses II	Syria	Ramesses II / Muwatali II	Battle of Kadesh	32%
9 AD	Roman Campaigns in Germania	Germany	Publius Varus / Arminius	Battle of Teutoburg Forest	31%
663 BC	Assyrian conquest of Egypt	Egypt	Ashurbanipal / Tantamani	Sack of Thebes	31%
52 BC	Gallic Wars	France	Julius Caesar / Vercingetorix	Battle of Alesia	30%
333 BC	Macedonian conquest of Persia	Turkey	Alexander the Great / Darius III	Battle of Issos	26%
479 BC	Greek counterattack against Persia	Greece	Pausanias / Mardonius	Battle of Plataea	26%
146 BC	Achaean War	Greece	Lucius Mummius / Diaeus	Battle of Corinth	21%
334 BC	Macedonian conquest of Persia	Turkey	Alexander the Great / Arsites	Battle of Granicus	21%
612 BC	Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire	Iraq	Nabopolassar / Sinsharishkun	Battle of Nineveh	21%
312 AD	Civil wars of the Tetrarchy	Italy	Constantine the Great / Maxentius	Battle of the Milvian Bridge	21%
326 BC	Macedonian conquest of India	Pakistan	Alexander the Great / Porus	Battle of Hydaspes	20%
218 BC	Second Punic War	Italy	Hannibal / Gaius Flaminius	Battle of Lake Trasimene	19%
378 AD	Gothic War	Turkey	Fritigern / Valens	Battle of Adrianople	17%
48 BC	Caesar's civil war	Greece	Julius Caesar / Pompey the Great	Battle of Pharsalus	15%
42 BC	Liberator's civil war	Greece	Mark Antony, Octavian / Brutus, Cassius	Battle of Philippi	15%
208 AD	Wars at the end of the Han dynasty	China	Cao Cao / Liu Bei	Battle of Red Cliffs	15%
1457 BC	Thutmose III's campaign in the Levant	Israel	Thutmose III / King of Kadesh	Battle of Megiddo	11%
338 BC	Expansion of Macedonia in Greece	Greece	Philip II of Macedon / Chares of Athens	Battle of Chaeronea	10%
480 BC	Second Persian invasion of Greece	Greece (Aegean Sea)	Xerxes I / Themistocles	Battle of Artemisium	8%
425 BC	Peloponnesian War	Greece	Demosthenes / Brasidas	Battle of Pylos	8%
280 BC	Pyrrhic War	Italy	Pyrrhus / Publius Laevinus	Battle of Heraclea	7%
405 BC	Peloponnesian War	Turkey (Dardanelles)	Lysander / Conon	Battle of Aegospotami	5%
301 BC	Wars of the Diadochi	Turkey	Antigonus I / Seleucus Nicator I	Battle of Ipsus	5%
525 BC	Persian conquest of Egypt	Egypt	Cambyses II / Psamtik III	Battle of Pelusium	5%
383 AD	Qin dynasty - Jin dynasty civil war	China	Fu Jian / Xie An	Battle of Fei River	4%
241 BC	First Punic War	Italy	Gaius Catulus / Hanno	Battle of the Aegates	4%
330 BC	Macedonian conquest of Persia	Iran	Alexander the Great / Ariobarszanes	Battle of the Persian Gate	4%
480 BC	Sicilian Wars (Greco-Punic Wars)	Italy	Hamilcar / Gelon	Battle of Himera	3%
539 BC	Persian conquest of Babylon	Iraq	Cyrus the Great / Nabonidus	Battle of Opis	3%
394 AD	Eugenius usurpation	Slovenia	Theodosius I / Eugenius	Battle of the Frigidus	3%
57 BC	Gallic Wars	France	Julius Caesar / Boduognatus	Battle of the Sabis river	3%
490 BC	First Persian invasion of Greece	Greece	Darius I - Datis / Unknown	Siege of Eretria	3%

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