| Clue | Empire | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | Was ruled by a pharaoh | Egyptian | 96%
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| O | Former empire of the Turks | Ottoman | 95%
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| A | Its capital was Tenochtitlan | Aztec | 92%
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| G | Was ruled by a kaiser | German | 92%
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| J | Annexed Korea in 1905 | Japanese | 92%
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| R | Former owners of Alaska | Russian | 92%
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| F | Controlled Haiti, Vietnam, etc... | French | 88%
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| B | Continuation of the Roman Empire | Byzantine | 87%
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| N | Known as the "Third Reich" | Nazi | 87%
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| M | Largest land empire in history | Mongol | 86%
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| D | Colonized Indonesia | Dutch | 83%
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| Q | The first imperial dynasty of China | Qin | 82%
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| C | Ancient rival of Rome located in modern-day Tunisia | Carthage | 77%
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| I | Conquered by Pizarro | Inca | 76%
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| P | In 1493, the pope gave it a claim to half of the New World | Portuguese | 75%
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| Z | South African empire led by Shaka | Zulu | 74%
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| V | Maritime empire based on the Adriatic Sea | Venetian | 60%
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| W | Chinese empire during the Three Kingdoms period | Wu | 60%
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| K | Angkor was its capital | Khmer | 59%
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| T | Buddhist empire of the 700s that controlled most of western China | Tibetan | 54%
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| H | Germanic empire composed of hundreds of autonomous states | Holy Roman | 50%
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| X | Semi-mythical first dynasty of China | Xia | 45%
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| U | Largest of the four major caliphates | Umayyad | 39%
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| Y | Chinese dynasty established by Kublai Khan | Yuan | 33%
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| L | The name for B when it was occupied by Roman Catholic crusaders | Latin | 25%
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| S | Last non-Islamic Persian empire | Sasanian | 19%
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