Ancient History by Letter ‘S’

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Hint	Answer
Athenian philosopher, forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock	Socrates
Ancient capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire	Susa
Mysterious group of invaders who contributed to the Late Bronze Age Collapse	Sea People
Macedonian General, ruled over a huge territory after the death of Alexander the Great	Seleucid
Roman stoic philosopher, tutored Nero	Seneca
Ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel	Samaria
Last man standing in the Year of the Five Roman Emperors in 193 AD	Septimius Severus
Ancient Iranian civilisation in Central Asia, located between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers	Sogdia
Transportation route linking China with India and the Middle East	Silk Road
Ancient Greek city on the Peloponnese peninsula, deadly rivals to Athens	Sparta
Large group of Germanic tribes from the Elbe river region	Suebi
Roman general who defeated Hannibal and Carthage	Scipio Africanus
Ancient Indo-European language, used to compose the Rig Vedas	Sanskrit

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Birth name of The Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama
Horse nomads who dominated the Pontic Steppe throughout much of classical antiquity	Scythians
Age comprised of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods	Stone Age
Greek school of philosophy and ethics, founded by Zeno in the early third century BC	Stoicism
First dictator of the Roman Republic	Sulla
Tribe of Cisalpine Gauls under Brennus, who won the Battle of the Allia before sacking Rome in 390 BC	Senones
Ancient Chinese dynasty, ruled during the Bronze Age	Shang
Circular neolithic monument in Southern England	Stonehenge
Governor of a Persian province	Satrap
Persian title meaning King of Kings	Shahanshah
King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, destroyed Babylon and ultimately conquered most of the Levant	Sennacherib
Cradle of civilisation, included the cities of Eridu, Ur and Lagash	Sumer
Last Persian Empire before the Muslim conquest	Sassanid

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