| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion popular in Persia | Mani | 71%
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| Persian King, who captured the Roman Emperor and caused the 3. Century Crisis | Shapur the Great | 43%
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| Historian, who wrote about roman histoy from the foundation of Rome to his present | Cassius Dio | 33%
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| Important neoplatonic philosopher and author of the Enneads | Plotinus | 33%
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| Roman emperor, who was captured by the Persians | Valerian | 33%
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| Roman emperor, who made every free man a citizen of the empire | Caracalla | 29%
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| Founder of the Gupta Empire in northern India | Gupta | 19%
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| He overthrow the Parthians and became founder of the Sasanian Empire | Ardashir I | 14%
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| Important biographer of greek philosophers | Diogenes Laërtius | 14%
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| Son of Cao Cao and founder of the Wei kingdom | Cao Pi | 10%
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| Christian head of Catechetical School of Alexandria and Church Father | Clement of Alexandria | 10%
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| He became king of Palmyra and saved Rome in the 3. Century Crisis against Persia | Odaenathus | 10%
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| Influential early theologian, who mixed Platonic, Stoic and Christian Ideas | Origen | 10%
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| Neoplatonic philosopher, who edited the Enneads and intigrated Aristotelian logic into Platonism | Porphyry | 10%
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| Founder of Neoplatonism | Ammonius Saccas | 5%
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