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Uncommon card · History
Histories, an Uncommon card
Polybius' Histories is a historical account of the rise of Rome, written in the 2nd century BC.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 58
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 112
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 112 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Histories quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Histories card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
They were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their ______.
Answer
entirety. They were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety. From the Histories article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong 69 · National Vision Party 66 · Alexander Guchkov 61 · Histories 58 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.
- They were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety.
- The bulk of the work was passed down through collections of excerpts kept in libraries in the Byzantine Empire.
- Polybius, a historian from the Greek city of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman victory in the Third Macedonian War, and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a great power.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Histories article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 58 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Histories
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
More History cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Histories in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Zhang ZhidongUncommon · History · ATK 69 DEF 43
- Baadur JobavaUncommon · Society · ATK 62 DEF 50
- Ferhat AbbasUncommon · History · ATK 64 DEF 48
- HornfelsUncommon · Science · ATK 62 DEF 50
- Luke BerryUncommon · Society · ATK 61 DEF 51
- National Historical Commission of the PhilippinesUncommon · History · ATK 60 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Histories (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
