Statistics for Ancient Cities Chain Quiz

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This quiz has been taken 30 times
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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City founded in 753 BC, supposedly by two brothers	Rome	82%
City founded on the site of the Egyptian city Rhacotis	Alexandria	73%
Ancient Greek city on an island of the same name, home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	Rhodes	73%
Two-letter Sumerian city with a well-preserved ziggurat	Ur	73%
City-state that lead the Delian League	Athens	68%
Important Phoenician city that may have been the oldest	Sidon	68%
One of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the capitals of the Umayyad Caliphate	Damascus	64%
One of the cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, and in modern times the largest city in Palestine	Gaza	64%
The dominant city of the Peloponnesian League	Sparta	64%
Capital of the Seleucid Empire between 240 and 63 BC and later known as "the cradle of Christianity"	Antioch	59%
One of the capitals of the Neo-Assyrian Empire	Nineveh	59%
The first capital of Assyria	Aššur	55%
Ancient city in Ethiopia known for its obelisks	Axum	55%
One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China	Nanjing	55%
One of the main cities of the Sogdians, and later the first capital of the Timurid Empire	Samarkand	50%
Capital of Elam, and one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire	Susa	50%
Political centre of the Minoan civilisation	Knossos	45%
Sumerian city that is thought to have been the largest city in the world in around 3100 BC	Uruk	45%
Ancient Greek city once located on the site of a modern Ukrainian city	Odessos	41%
Capital of the Hittite Empire	Hattusa	32%
City in Roman Libya that was the birthplace of Septimius Severus	Leptis Magna	32%
Indus Valley city which contains a building known as the "Great Granary"	Mohenjo-daro	32%
The hill on which this Middle Eastern city's citadel sits has been inhabited since at least the middle of the 3rd millennium BC	Aleppo	27%
Capital of Lydia	Sardis	23%
The Romans fought the Carthaginians and the Sardinians near this city in Sardinia during the First Punic War	Olbia	18%
City near Lake Titicaca that was the capital of a civilisation located in modern Bolivia, Chile and Peru	Tiwanaku	14%
This Greek city-state was ruled by Pheidon in the 7th century, and during his reign the city was at its most powerful	Argos	9%
Egyptian city home to a temple built during the Ptolemaic period, dedicated to Horus	Edfu	9%
City in Upper Mesopotamia that was also known as Carrhae, and was one of the capital of both the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the Umayyad Caliphate	Harran	9%
Ancient Egyptian city also known as Crocodilopolis, and now known as Faiyum	Shedet	5%