Statistics for City-States

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Clue	City-State	% Correct
Birthplace of democracy	Athens	98%
Grew to become one of history's greatest empires	Rome	95%
City of canals built on a lagoon	Venice	91%
Militant rival of the above	Sparta	90%
Monte Carlo is a neighborhood of this city	Monaco	86%
Birthplace of the Renaissance	Florence	81%
Where chewing gum is banned	Singapore	78%
Lombard League city ruled by the Visconti	Milan	71%
Phoenician colony. Grew to control much of the African coast.	Carthage	63%
Setting of "Romeo and Juliet"	Verona	60%
City in northwest Italy. Columbus's home town.	Genoa	57%
"Free city" between Germany and Poland	Danzig	53%
Free city on the Main river. Origin of the Rothschild family.	Frankfurt	46%
Galileo's home town	Pisa	42%
Developed a third order of columns	Corinth	35%
Sicilian city founded as a Greek colony. Home of Archimedes.	Syracuse	32%
Phoenician cities often grouped together	Tyre	25%
Had a "Sacred Band" of elite soldiers	Thebes	23%
Leader of the Hanseatic League	Lübeck	18%
Phoenician cities often grouped together	Sidon	15%