Statistics for Ancient City by Letter

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Letter	Description	City	% Correct
C	City-state that controlled large parts of the coastline of the western Mediterranean.	Carthage	95%
R	According to legend, this city was founded by two brothers, a Trojan refugee or a Greek hero from Arcadia.	Rome	89%
F	City established by Julius Caesar in 59 BC as a home for his veteran soldiers, which later became one of the centres of the Renaissance.	Florentia	86%
B	Capital of an ancient state of the same name, and later one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Empire	Babylon	84%
D	Sacred precinct that served as the seat of the oracle called the Pythia.	Delphi	78%
J	A city that is potentially the oldest in the world, and had the oldest known protective wall.	Jericho	73%
Q	City founded by the Quitu culture.	Quito	65%
O	City home to the shrine Sumiyoshi-taisha, founded in 211.	Osaka	54%
V	The holiest of the seven sacred cities in Hinduism and Jainism.	Varanasi	49%
K	The ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilisation.	Knossos	46%
P	The most famous city built by the Nabataeans.	Petra	41%
S	One of the most important Phoenician cities, and potentially the oldest. It was notable for its glass manufacturing industry.	Sidon	32%
U	This city was said to have been ruled by Gilgamesh during the 27th century BC.	Uruk	32%
A	Capital of a large kingdom that controlled parts of modern day Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia.	Axum	30%
L	One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China.	Luoyang	30%
G	Capital of Phrygia, which has a name similar to a famous knot.	Gordion	24%
M	One of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, home to over 700 wells.	Mohenjo-daro	19%
H	Capital of the Hittite Empire.	Hattusa	16%
E	One of the oldest Mesopotamian cities. In Sumerian mythology, it was once the home of the water god Enki.	Eridu	11%
T	The largest city in the Americas between the years 1 and 500.	Teotihuacan	11%
I	Town and fortress in Roman Britain built on the site of modern Exeter.	Isca Dumnoniorum	8%
W	This ancient Egyptian city was known to the ancient Greeks as Thebes, but was known to the ancient Egyptians as...	Waset	5%
X	Capital of the Qin dynasty.	Xianyang	5%
N	The first permanent Greek colony in Egypt.	Naucratis	3%
Y	Maya city that was a major rival of the cities Tikal and Palenque.	Yaxchilan	3%
Z	This city was the capital of the Himyarite Kingdom until the 4th century, when it was replaced by Sana'a.	Zafar	3%