Statistics for Historical Asian Cities Quiz

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Hint	City	% Correct
Birthplace of Islam	Mecca	95%
Birthplace of Judiasm	Jerusalem	87%
Capital of Syria	Damascus	84%
Former Name of Istanbul	Constantinople	83%
Known as "The City of the Prophet"	Medina	59%
Former Name of Constantinople	Byzantium	56%
Location of a Homeric War	Troy	52%
Most Populated City in the World	Shanghai	51%
"Red Hero" in Mongolian	Ulan Bator	47%
Home of the Tomb of Qin Shi Huang	Xi'an	46%
Capital of the Achaemenid Persian Empire	Persepolis	41%
The First City to Reach a Population Over 1,000,000	Baghdad	38%
Birthplace of Abraham	Ur	28%
Home of the Shah Mosque	Isfahan	19%
Home of a Famous Persian Salad	Shiraz	19%
"Tranquility and Peace Capital"	Heian-Kyo	15%
Home of the Bayon Temple	Angkor	12%
Oldest City in Kazakhstan	Taraz	2%
Named the capital by the Indo-Greek King Menander	Sagala	1%