Statistics for Famous People of the 3rd Century AD

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion popular in Persia	Mani	63%
Persian King, who captured the Roman Emperor and caused the 3. Century Crisis	Shapur the Great	44%
Historian, who wrote about roman histoy from the foundation of Rome to his present	Cassius Dio	38%
Important neoplatonic philosopher and author of the Enneads	Plotinus	38%
Roman emperor, who was captured by the Persians	Valerian	38%
Roman emperor, who made every free man a citizen of the empire	Caracalla	31%
He overthrow the Parthians and became founder of the Sasanian Empire	Ardashir I	19%
Important biographer of greek philosophers	Diogenes Laërtius	19%
Founder of the Gupta Empire in northern India	Gupta	19%
Christian head of Catechetical School of Alexandria and Church Father	Clement of Alexandria	13%
Influential early theologian, who mixed Platonic, Stoic and Christian Ideas	Origen	13%
Neoplatonic philosopher, who edited the Enneads and intigrated Aristotelian logic into Platonism	Porphyry	13%
Founder of Neoplatonism	Ammonius Saccas	6%
Son of Cao Cao and founder of the Wei kingdom	Cao Pi	6%
He became king of Palmyra and saved Rome in the 3. Century Crisis against Persia	Odaenathus	0%