Prompt 7 of 7
Name an ancient civilization
81 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Catalhoyuk— One of the world's first true cities, buried in Turkey for 9,000 years. No streets, no hierarchy. Residents entered their homes through holes in the roof. The past is weird.
85 ptsDeep Cut41 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Aksumite Empire
- Ancestral Puebloans
- Benin Empire
- Cahokia
- Canaanites
- Caral
- Chavin
- Chimu
- Cucuteni-Trypillia
- Dilmun
- Elamite civilization
- Garamantes
- Gobekli Tepe
- Great Zimbabwe
- Gupta Empire
- Jiroft civilization
- Jomon
- Kushan Empire
- Land of Punt
- Lydia
- Medes
- Mitanni
- Mixtec
- Moche
- Muisca
- Nabataean Kingdom
- Nok
- Parthia
- Phrygia
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Rapa Nui
- Saba
- Seleucid Empire
- Silla
- Teotihuacan
- Thracians
- Tiwanaku
- Urartian Kingdom
- Vandals
- Wari
- Zapotec
60 ptsRare22 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Akkadian Empire
- Ancient Israel
- Celts
- Etruscan
- Ghana Empire
- Goths
- Hittite
- Huns
- Khmer Empire
- Macedon
- Mali Empire
- Maurya Empire
- Minoan
- Mycenaean
- Nazca
- Nubia
- Olmec
- Sassanid Empire— The last Persian empire before the Arab conquest, and Rome's great rival in the east.
- Scythian
- Songhai Empire
- Toltec
- Troy
30 ptsSchooler9 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Assyrian Empire
- Byzantine Empire
- Carthage
- Chinese civilization
- Indus Valley
- Mongol Empire
- Persian Empire
- Phoenician
- Viking
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Atlantis— Not real. Plato made it up as a philosophical device. The school has watched all three History Channel specials.
10 ptsPlankton7 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Aztec
- Inca
- Maya
- Mesopotamia