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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, an Uncommon card
The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, officially the Kingdom of Bactria was a Greek kingdom during the Hellenistic period located in Central Asia and Afghanistan.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 169
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Ranked #1,531 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
An ______ further east, with military campaigns and settlements, may have reached the borders of the Qin State in China by about 230 BC.
Answer
extension. An extension further east, with military campaigns and settlements, may have reached the borders of the Qin State in China by about 230 BC. From the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
History of video games. History of video games 95 · Cossack Hetmanate 89 · Greco-Bactrian Kingdom 83 · Classical Greece 79 ATK in WikiCards.
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.
- The kingdom was founded by the Seleucid satrap Diodotus I Soter in about 256 BC, and continued to dominate Central Asia while ruled by the Euthydemid and Eucratid dynasties, until its fall around 120 BC.
- At its peak the kingdom consisted of present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and for a short time, small parts of Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Iran.
- An extension further east, with military campaigns and settlements, may have reached the borders of the Qin State in China by about 230 BC.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Greco-Bactrian Kingdom article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Greco-Bactrian Kingdom (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
