Statistics for Cities in the world before 1 AD - with map

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Country	pop	Year founded	Answer	% Correct
Italy	1.25 M	500 BC	Rome	89%
United Kingdom	30 K	100 BC	London	88%
Egypt	600 K	300 BC	Alexandria	78%
Turkey	35 K	100 BC	Byzantion	78%
Israel / Palestine	550 K	800 BC	Jerusalem	78%
Greece	155 K	430 BC	Athens	76%
Tunisia	100 K	600 BC	Carthage	64%
Italy	30 K	100 BC	Milan	63%
Greece	40 K	430 BC	Sparta	63%
Turkey	34 K	100 BC	Ankara	60%
Syria	39 K	430 BC	Damascus	59%
Iraq	80 K	1700 BC	Babylon	58%
Mexico	150 K	900 BC	Teotihuacan	57%
France	50 K	100 BC	Lyon	52%
Turkey	90 K	100 BC	Smyrna	48%
China	400 K	200 BC	Xi'an	47%
Egypt	30 K	2500 BC	Memphis	45%
North Korea	25 K	1000 BC	Pyongyang	45%
Greece	35 K	100 BC	Thessaloniki	44%
Iraq	12 K	2800 BC	Ur	44%
Syria	10 K	1800 BC	Aleppo	40%
Italy	100 K	500 BC	Syracuse	40%
Egypt	10 K	1800 BC	Thebes	40%
Greece	70 K	430 BC	Corinth	38%
Greece	42 K	200 BC	Rhodes	35%
Lebanon	10 K	1000 BC	Tyre	31%
Turkey	10 K	1300 BC	Troy	29%
Spain	62 K	100 BC	Cadiz	27%
Iran	70 K	430 BC	Persepolis	27%
Italy	38 K	430 BC	Messina	26%
Uzbekistan	75 K	712 BC	Samarkand	25%
Turkey	120 K	200 BC	Antioch	24%
Iraq	70 K	3500 BC	Uruk	22%
Italy	40 K	430 BC	Taranto	21%
Greece	15 K	1700 BC	Knossos	20%
Greece	35 K	430 BC	Kerkira	19%
Jordan	30 K	100 BC	Petra	19%
China	70 K	100 BC	Chengdu	17%
Egypt	16 K	1900 BC	Elephantine	17%
Turkey	40 K	200 BC	Ephesus	17%
Lebanon	36 K	430 BC	Sidon	17%
Iraq	100 K	1600 BC	Nineveh	16%
Italy	30 K	100 BC	Ostia	15%
Libya	35 K	430 BC	Cyrene	14%
India	100 K	430 BC	Patna	14%
Iran	10 K	2400 BC	Susa	14%
Mexico	100 K	900 BC	Caracol	13%
Greece	24 K	1200 BC	Argos	12%
China	50 K	1000 BC	Luoyang	12%
Iraq	30 K	2200 BC	Akkad	11%
China	24 K	1600 BC	Bo	10%
Italy	100 K	300 BC	Capua	10%
India	54 K	430 BC	Varanasi	10%
Iraq	30 K	1900 BC	Assur	9%
Iraq	60 K	2500 BC	Lagash	8%
Iraq	10 K	3500 BC	Larak	8%
Cyprus	30 K	1400 BC	Larnaca	8%
Turkmenistan	100 K	1 AD	Merv	8%
Greece	30 K	1360 BC	Mycenae	8%
China	60 K	420 BC	Suzhou	8%
Guatemala	100 K	900 BC	Tikal	8%
Italy	35 K	430 BC	Crotone	7%
Italy	40 K	430 BC	Agrigento	6%
Greece	20 K	1500 BC	Akrotiti	6%
China	40 K	430 BC	Changsha	6%
Egypt	10 K	2400 BC	Heliopolis	6%
France	44 K	100 BC	Nimes	6%
France	30 K	200 BC	Olbia	6%
Iraq	300 K	300 BC	Seleucia	6%
Italy	35 K	430 BC	Gela	5%
Turkey	50 K	650 BC	Miletus	5%
Turkey	35 K	430 BC	Sardis	5%
Iran	10 K	3300 BC	Anshan	4%
Iran	100 K	500 BC	Ecbatana	4%
Pakistan	15 K	2500 BC	Harappa	4%
Iraq	30 K	2800 BC	Kish	4%
Pakistan	20 K	2500 BC	Mohenjodaro	4%
Turkey	35 K	200 BC	Pergamum	4%
Pakistan	100 K	1 AD	Peshawar	4%
Afghanistan	75 K	200 BC	Balkh	3%
Iraq	6 K	3700 BC	Eridu	3%
Greece	30 K	100 BC	Gortyn	3%
China	100 K	500 BC	Kaifeng	3%
Syria	10 K	2800 BC	Mari	3%
Iraq	50 K	800 BC	Nimrud	3%
Iraq	10 K	3000 BC	Nippur	3%
India	350 K	400 BC	Pataliputra	3%
Syria	37 K	100 BC	Apamea	2%
Turkey	30 K	1600 BC	Hattusa	2%
Israel / Palestine	27 K	800 BC	Samaria	2%
Pakistan	100 K	300 BC	Taxilla	2%
Iraq	13 K	2700 BC	Adab	1%
Sri Lanka	130 K	100 BC	Anuradhapura	1%
China	30 K	1200 BC	Anyang	1%
China	32 K	1400 BC	Ao	1%
Egypt	20 K	1800 BC	Avaris	1%
Iraq	10 K	1800 BC	Bad-Tibira	1%
Syria	10 K	1700 BC	Carchemish	1%
Bahrain	10 K	1900 BC	Dilmun	1%
China	32 K	100 BC	Dunhuang	1%
Iraq	40 K	1360 BC	Dur-Kurigalzu	1%
Syria	30 K	2500 BC	Ebla	1%
Greece	30 K	430 BC	Elis	1%
Iraq	10 K	1800 BC	Eshnunna	1%
China	100 K	500 BC	Handan	1%
Iraq	16 K	2800 BC	Larsa	1%
China	100 K	700 BC	Linzi	1%
Iraq	10 K	2200 BC	Nina	1%
China	100 K	500 BC	Qufu	1%
Iraq	30 K	2800 BC	Shuruppak	1%
Egypt	35 K	1000 BC	Tanis	1%
India	100 K	200 BC	Ujjain	1%
Iraq	20 K	2800 BC	Umma	1%
China	100 K	300 BC	Xianyang	1%
China	120 K	1300 BC	Yinxu	1%
Iraq	10 K	2500 BC	Akshak	0%
Egypt	30 K	1360 BC	Amarna	0%
China	100 K	500 BC	Anyi	0%
India	15 K	2300 BC	Dholavira	0%
Iran	10 K	1200 BC	Dur-Untash	0%
China	40 K	1700 BC	Erlitou	0%
Iraq	40 K	2400 BC	Girsu	0%
Egypt	30 K	1300 BC	Hermopolis	0%
Iraq	40 K	2000 BC	Isin	0%
Mexico	35 K	200 BC	Izapa	0%
Uzbekistan	20 K	1400 BC	Jarkutan	0%
China	50 K	430 BC	Lucheng	0%
China	100 K	100 BC	Maoling	0%
Yemen	45 K	650 BC	Mareb	0%
Afghanistan	10 K	2000 BC	Mundigak	0%
Syria	20 K	3000 BC	Nagar	0%
Turkmenistan	10 K	2400 BC	Namazga-Tepe	0%
Greece	10 K	1200 BC	Navarino	0%
Egypt	34 K	100 BC	Oxyrhyncus	0%
India	60 K	200 BC	Patihan	0%
Egypt	160 K	1200 BC	Pi-Ramessis	0%
Syria	20 K	1800 BC	Qatna	0%
India	100 K	500 BC	Rajagriha	0%
India	10 K	2300 BC	Rakhigarhi	0%
Egypt	48 K	650 BC	Sais	0%
China	35 K	1200 BC	Sanxingdui	0%
Turkey	75 K	1300 BC	Sapinuwa	0%
Iran	20 K	2500 BC	Shahr-e Sukhteh	0%
China	100 K	500 BC	Shangqi	0%
Syria	10 K	2500 BC	Shehna	0%
Israel	16 K	1800 BC	Tel Hazor	0%
Iraq	15 K	2300 BC	Tell Taya	0%
Bolivia	100 K	500 BC	Tiahuanaco	0%
Turkey	10 K	2300 BC	Titris Hoyuk	0%
Mexico	100 K	300 BC	Tollan	0%
Mexico	30 K	200 BC	Tres Zapotes	0%
Iraq	10 K	1400 BC	Ugarit	0%
Syria	10 K	2800 BC	Urkesh	0%
India	45 K	430 BC	Vaishali	0%
China	100 K	400 BC	Xinzheng	0%
China	100 K	400 BC	Yiyang	0%
Iraq	10 K	2800 BC	Zabalam	0%
Yemen	60 K	100 BC	Zafar	0%