Statistics for Countries by Founding Story

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Story	Country	% Correct
Seeking "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness", 13 colonies declare independence from Great Britain	United States	99%
Qin Shi Huang conquers the warring states to establish the first imperial dynasty	China	92%
Clovis unites the Frankish tribes under a single king	France	90%
The "First Fleet" arrives at Botany Bay carrying about 1,000 convicts	Australia	88%
Emperor Jimmu, descended from the sun goddess Amaterasu, conquers the main island before eventually dying at age 126	Japan	87%
Separatists declare independence from Colombia after Colombia refuses to ratify a canal-building treaty with the U.S.	Panama	87%
Ingólfr Arnarson arrives on the island in 874 A.D.	Iceland	83%
Two kingdoms are united by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella	Spain	83%
Freed slaves and free-born blacks from the United States establish a democracy in Africa	Liberia	81%
Patrice Lumumba leads the country to independence from Belgium in 1960	D. R. Congo	72%
In the year 1307, three men take an oath to unite the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden	Switzerland	69%
Menes unites the upper and lower parts of the river, founding the First Dynasty around 3000 B.C.	Egypt	67%
The Medes overthrow the Neo-Assyrian empire, uniting the plateau under their leadership	Iran	66%
Kinh Dương Vương founds the country in 2879 B.C., reigning for over 100 years before dying at age 260	Vietnam	64%
The national government flees to an island, establishing a "temporary capital" in 1949	Taiwan	61%
Saint Marinus founds a monestary on Monte Titano in AD 301	San Marino	59%
The UK, Russia, and France force the Ottoman Empire to relinquish control of this Christian nation in 1832	Greece	58%
Dom Pedro declares independence, separating the country from his father's empire	Brazil	50%

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