Statistics for A Museum of World History: 250 BC to 49 CE (Level 2: Guess the year)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Rome's population reaches 1 million, making it the largest city in the world	1	0%
The Silk Road's last link is completed by the Han, connecting China and the Roman Empire.	130 BCE	0%
Han leader Liu Bang, 54, commands soldiers who defeat the soldiers of Xian Yu at the Battle of Gaixa, launching the Han Dynasty.	202 BCE	0%
Archimedes figures out how to measure the density of an object.	212 BCE	0%
Qin Shihuang unites China’s Warring States and launches the Qin Dynasty.	221 BCE	0%
Horace, 32, publishes a book of 38 odes.	23 BCE	0%
Octavian, 36, becomes the first Roman Emperor and takes the name “Augustus.”	27 BCE	0%
Virgil, 41, writes The Georgics, a series of poems that honor the simplicity of farm life.	29 BCE	0%
Cleopatra takes power in Egypt.	47 BCE	0%
Julius Caesar commands an army that crosses the Rubicon river into Italy, leading to Caesar's election as dictator, and the end of the age of the Roman Republic.	49 BCE	0%
Ovid, 35, writes Metamorphoses.	8 BCE	0%
Wang Mang , 54, takes power from the Han in China.	9	0%