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Fatimid Caliphate, a Rare card
The Fatimid Caliphate, also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate that existed from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 190
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 370,000
Ranked #194 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Fatimid Caliphate quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Fatimid Caliphate card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Spanning a large area of North Africa and West Asia, it extended from the ______ Mediterranean in the west to the Red Sea in the east.
Answer
western. Spanning a large area of North Africa and West Asia, it extended from the western Mediterranean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. From the Fatimid Caliphate article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Brexit. Brexit 780,000 · Assyria 570,000 · Fatimid Caliphate 370,000 · Józef Piłsudski 250,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Spanning a large area of North Africa and West Asia, it extended from the western Mediterranean in the west to the Red Sea in the east.
- The Fatimids traced their ancestry from the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband Ali, considered the first Imam of Shi'a Islam.
- The Fatimids were acknowledged as the rightful imams by different Isma'ili communities as well as by denominations in many other Muslim lands and adjacent regions.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fatimid Caliphate article was read about 370,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Fatimid Caliphate
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fatimid Caliphate (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nourerrahmane (using file uploaded by Omar-toons as template), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
