Statistics for Ancient History by Letter ‘T’

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Boy Pharaoh of the New Kingdom, his mummy was discovered by professor Howard Carter in 1922	Tutankhamun	95%
Found in modern-day Turkey, this city was subjected to a famous siege by Mycenaean Greeks using a wooden horse	Troy	88%
Ancient Chinese religion based on the teachings of Laozi	Taoism	85%
Metal alloyed with copper to produce bronze	Tin	85%
Stepson of Augustus and second Emperor of Rome	Tiberius	83%
River which formed the Eastern boundary of ancient Mesopotamia	Tigris	75%
Roman Emperor who expanded the empire to it’s maximum territorial extent	Trajan	73%
Clay sculptures buried to guard the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China	Terracotta Army	68%
Either an Ancient Greek city founded by Cadmus, or Memphis’s successor as the capital of Ancient Egypt	Thebes	68%
Modern country where the Pre-Pottery-Neolithic site of Gobekli Tepe (circa 9,500 BC) was discovered	Turkey	60%
Five ancient scrolls which formed the basis of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism and Christianity	Torah	58%
Site of a battle in 480 BC, during which King Leonidas and 300 Spartans successfully delayed an invading Achaemenid Persian army under Xerxes	Thermopylae	55%
Historian and politician of the Roman Empire, wrote the “Annals” and the “Histories”	Tacitus	48%
One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, found at Ephesus, South of the Turkish city of Izmir	Temple of Artemis	45%
Historical region of South-East Europe, with land in modern-day Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece	Thrace	45%
Dravidian language spoken in the Southern Indian “Three Crowned King” lands of Chola, Chera and Pandya	Tamil	43%
Ancient ship, a kind of galley with three banks of oars	Trireme	43%
Canaanite port city, later a major Phoenician trade hub	Tyre	38%
King of Rome, the last of his line, Rome became a republic after his death	Tarquin the Proud	30%
Latin name for the Central Asian region conquered by Alexander the Great, meaning literally the land “Beyond the Oxus River”	Transoxiana	30%
One of the earliest crops ever cultivated, a staple food in Oceania, Asia and Africa	Taro	25%
Mesoamerican city situated just North-East of modern-day Mexico City, site of the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon	Teotihuacan	18%
Rigid metal neck ring, usually made from twisted strands, signified high rank in many Iron-Age cultures	Torque	18%
Black Sea port city and Silk-Road trading post on the North-East coast of Turkey	Trebizond	15%
Warrior Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, made most of the Levant his dominion, even crossing the Euphrates	Thutmose III	13%
Animist sky god, chief deity of the shamanic Gokturks and many other steppe nomads	Tengri	10%
Fearsome King of the Assyrian Empire around 1100 BC, titled himself “King of the Four Corners of the World”	Tiglath Pileser I	8%