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P	First Persian Empire	550BC	Also called the Achaemenid Empire was an ancient empire in Western Asia. Reached its greatest extent under Xerxes I		85%
C	Carthaginian Empire	814BC	Fought the Punic Wars against the Roman Empire		83%
R	Roman Empire	27BC	Longest reigning empire in history		83%
O	Ottoman Empire	1299CE	The Empire came into World War I as one of the Central Powers		82%
B	Babylonian Empire	1900BC	Preceede by Sumeria and the Akkadian Empire		81%
E	Kingdom of Egypt	1550BC	Civilization of ancient Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River		81%
G	Ancient Greece	1200BC	Considered the cradle of Western civilization, from which derives most of modern politics, philosophy, science, and art		80%
S	Sumer	4500BC	earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia		79%
A	Assyria	2500BC	Was centred on the Tigris River in Upper Mesopotamia,		77%
Q	Qin Dynasty	221BC	Shortest of the major dynasties. Overthrew the Zhou dynasty and eventually conquered all the Seven Warring States	China	75%
F	Frankish Empire	800CE	The largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom. Became the predecessor of France and Germany		71%
M	Macedonian Empire	334BC	Once the most powerful Kingdom in the world, later became a part of Hellenistic Greece		71%
K	Khmer Empire	802CE	Site of Angkor, in present-day Cambodia, the capital during the empire's peak		70%
I	Indus Valley Civilisation	3300BC	With Egypt and Mesopotamia, one of three early civilisations of the Near East and South Asia, stretching from northeast Afghanistan through Pakistan and northwestern India		67%
U	Umayyad Caliphate	661CE	The second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. Damascus was the capital. Conquests included the Transoxiana Region in Central Asia, Maghreb Region and the Iberian Peninsula		65%
J	First Jin Dynasty	266CE	Founded by the Sima Family, it followed the Three Kingdoms period	China	62%
Z	First Zhou Dynasty	1046BC	famous for the beginnings of major Chinese philosophies: Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism	China	62%
V	Republic of Venice	697CE	Known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic in present-day Italy		62%
N	{Nubian} Kingdom of Kush *region	1070BC	Ancient kingdom centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt		61%
Y	Yuan Dynasty	1271CE	A successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division and a ruling dynasty of China established by Kublai Khan	China	61%
X	Xin Dynasty	9CE	Often considered an interruption of the Han dynasty, dividing it into the Western and Eastern Han	China	58%
T	Tibetan Empire	755CE	Songtsen Gampo was the first emperor to expand beyond Lhasa and the Yarlung Valley. He is credited with introducing Buddhism to the empire		55%
L	Liao Dynasty	915CE	Ruled over North China, Manchuria, Mongolia and northern Korean Peninsula. Was succeeded by the Jin Dynasty	China	48%
H	Hitite Empire	1460BC	Part of The Great Powers' Club of the Late Bronze Age		24%
W	Wari Empire	500CE	Also called The Huari were a civilization in ancient Peru		12%
D	Dehli Sultanate	1206CE	One of the few powers to repel Mongol attacks by the Chagatai Khanate, and of the few Islamic powers to be ruled by a woman, Razia Sultana		11%