Statistics for Historical Countries A-Z

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Greek state often said to be the birthplace of democracy	Athens	96%
R	Augustus was its first emperor	Roman Empire	93%
B	Ancient city where the Hanging Gardens might have existed	Babylon	90%
O	Turkish empire that conquered Constantinople	Ottoman Empire	89%
C	African kingdom defeated in the Punic Wars	Carthage	83%
I	Home to Machu Picchu	Inca Empire	83%
Q	Last imperial Chinese dynasty	Qing	79%
Y	Tito was one of its presidents	Yugoslavia	78%
W	Bonn was its capital	West Germany	74%
Z	One of the two countries that make up modern day Tanzania	Zanzibar	68%
P	Domain of the Pope in medieval Europe	Papacy	67%
V	Became a US state in 1791	Vermont	67%
D	Free city formed after World War I	Danzig	62%
L	North Italian kingdom in the 600s	Lombard Kingdom	54%
U	Second of the Muslim caliphates	Umayyads	43%
N	Medieval state in northern Russia	Novgorod	40%
H	Charlemagne's domain	Holy Roman Empire	35%
K	Ancient African kingdom south of Egypt	Kush	32%
F	Muslim dynasty in Egypt and target of the Crusades	Fatimids	30%
J	Last dynastic kingdom of Korea	Joseon	28%
S	West African empire that broke free from Mali in the 1400s	Songhay Empire	27%
E	Greek state on the Ionian Sea coast	Epirus	23%
T	Major Southern Italian state before Italian unification	Two Sicilies	21%
X	Eurasian steppe nomads that frequently raided China	Xiongnu	15%
M	Largest Indian empire in the 1700s	Maratha Empire	13%
G	Southern African kingdom rich in gold	Great Zimbabwe	7%