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Hellenistic Period Quiz - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 74 times
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- The average score is 5 of 14
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Event that is generally accepted to be the start of this period | Death of {Alexander the Great} | 93%
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| Location believed to mark 'the end of the world' known today as the ‘Straight of Gibraltar’ | Pillars of {Hercules} | 62%
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| Syracusan physicist/mathematician accidently killed during the cities invasion | Archimedes | 57%
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| Last Greek kingdom to fall ending this period | Ptolemaic | 51%
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| A type of costly victory named after a general | Pyrrhic | 49%
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| Volatile Hellenistic kingdom annexed by Rome in 63BC | Seleucid | 48%
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| An ancient galley with three banks of oars | Trireme | 48%
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| Roman senator known for ending all speeches with the remark, "Furthermore I consider that Carthage must be destroyed" | Cato the Elder | 43%
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| Greek mathematician known as the ‘father of geometry’ | Euclid | 43%
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| The child who swore to be the scourge of the Roman Republic | Hannibal Barca | 23%
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| People that predominantly inhabited Iberia before its subsequent conquest by Carthage and Rome | Iberians | 21%
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| Last ancient great wonder to be constructed | Pharos lighthouse at Alexandria | 2%
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| Only battle featured in Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's book, "The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo" to occur during this period | Metaurus | 0%
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| Full name of the Roman general known for his victory at Zama | {Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus} Africanus Numantinus | 0%
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