Statistics for Ancient History by Letter ‘S’

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Athenian philosopher, forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock	Socrates	92%
Ancient Greek city on the Peloponnese peninsula, deadly rivals to Athens	Sparta	74%
Age comprised of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods	Stone Age	68%
Transportation route linking China with India and the Middle East	Silk Road	66%
Circular neolithic monument in Southern England	Stonehenge	62%
Ancient Indo-European language, used to compose the Rig Vedas	Sanskrit	50%
Roman general who defeated Hannibal and Carthage	Scipio Africanus	48%
Birth name of The Buddha	Siddhartha Gautama	48%
Cradle of civilisation, included the cities of Eridu, Ur and Lagash	Sumer	40%
Greek school of philosophy and ethics, founded by Zeno in the early third century BC	Stoicism	36%
Mysterious group of invaders who contributed to the Late Bronze Age Collapse	Sea People	34%
Governor of a Persian province	Satrap	32%
Roman stoic philosopher, tutored Nero	Seneca	32%
Last Persian Empire before the Muslim conquest	Sassanid	28%
Horse nomads who dominated the Pontic Steppe throughout much of classical antiquity	Scythians	28%
Ancient Chinese dynasty, ruled during the Bronze Age	Shang	26%
First dictator of the Roman Republic	Sulla	26%
Ancient capital of Elam and the Achaemenid Empire	Susa	24%
Macedonian General, ruled over a huge territory after the death of Alexander the Great	Seleucid	22%
Last man standing in the Year of the Five Roman Emperors in 193 AD	Septimius Severus	14%
Ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel	Samaria	12%
Persian title meaning King of Kings	Shahanshah	12%
Ancient Iranian civilisation in Central Asia, located between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers	Sogdia	12%
Large group of Germanic tribes from the Elbe river region	Suebi	10%
King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, destroyed Babylon and ultimately conquered most of the Levant	Sennacherib	8%
Tribe of Cisalpine Gauls under Brennus, who won the Battle of the Allia before sacking Rome in 390 BC	Senones	6%