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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mesopotamnian city with the hanging gardens, symbol of evil in the Revelations	Babylon	100%
Was destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79	Pompeii	98%
City, which was destroyed after the 3. Punic War, home of Hannibal	Carthage	90%
City in modern day Turkey, Homer writes about a siege of this city in the Illiad	Troy	83%
Athens main enemy in the Peleponesian War, known for his very militaristic traditions	Sparta	80%
Capital of the Khmer Empire, which was home to the biggest temple complex of the world	Angkor	71%
Capital of the Nabataeans, which included big temples, that were carved in a rock	Petra	56%
City, which was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster	Pripyat	56%
Sumerian city, which was the home town of Abraham according to the Old Testament	Ur	56%
Capital of Archaemedid Persia and name of a French/Iranian graphic novel/movie	Persepolis	44%
Powerful assyrian city, in the Old Testament Prophet Jonah has to preach to its people	Nineveh	41%
Mayan city of the late classic period, popular for tourists for its castillo pyramid	Chichen Itza	39%
Sumerian city which became capital of the first empire after the conquests of King Sargon	Akkad	37%
Capital of the Seleucid Empire and one of the biggest cities of the Roman Empire, Saint Paul was its Bishop	Antioch	32%
Sumerian city, which gave Iraq its name and was the biggest city in Sumeria	Uruk	29%
City in modern day Syria, was important City in roman times and capital of a short lived empire in the 3. Century	Palmyra	27%
Greek Bronze Age City with mythical kings like Perseus, Agamemnon and Orestes	Mycenae	24%
Capital of the Parthian and Sasanian Empire in modern day Iraq	Ctesiphon	22%
Capital of the Minoan Empire, in mythology home to the minotaur in its labyrinth	Knossos	22%
City in Gaul, where Caesar triumphet over Vercingetorix and finished the Gallic Wars	Alesia	20%
Gave Syria and three powerful empires of the Bronze and Iron Age its name	Assur	20%
Capital of Siam and once one of the most important trading cities of Asia	Ayutthaya	17%
City at the west coast of Turkey, its temple for Goddess Artemis/Diana was one of the Seven World Wonders	Ephesos	15%
Important greek city in Turkey during hellenistic and roman times, gave parchment its name	Pergamon	15%
Important trading city of the Bronze Age south to the Hittite Empire, developed the first alphabet	Ugarit	10%
Important trading center in northern Germany in the early Middle Ages, which was founded by Scandinavians	Haitabu	7%