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Uncommon card · History
History of cities, an Uncommon card
Towns and cities have a long history, although opinions vary on which ancient settlements are truly cities.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 42,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
History of cities quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the History of cities card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Historically, the ______ of dense, permanent settlement were numerous, but required prohibitive amounts of food and labor to maintain.
Answer
benefits. Historically, the benefits of dense, permanent settlement were numerous, but required prohibitive amounts of food and labor to maintain. From the History of cities article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Armoured warfare. Armoured warfare 81 · Antonio Negri 78 · History of cities 75 · Pope Sylvester II 72 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.
- Historically, the benefits of dense, permanent settlement were numerous, but required prohibitive amounts of food and labor to maintain.
- Ancient cities allowed for the pooling of resources, exchange of ideas, large marketplaces, and even some shared amenities such as drinking water, sewerage, law enforcement, and roads.
- The first cities formed and grew once these benefits of proximity between people exceeded the cost of work required to maintain a settlement.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The History of cities article was read about 42,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get History of cities
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.
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The cards just above and just below History of cities in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Viking programUncommon · Science · ATK 75 DEF 80
- Antonio NegriUncommon · History · ATK 78 DEF 77
- Lotte KopeckyUncommon · Society · ATK 82 DEF 73
- John TyndallUncommon · Science · ATK 85 DEF 70
- Kinzua BridgeUncommon · Arts · ATK 73 DEF 82
- Pierre TurgeonUncommon · Society · ATK 77 DEF 78
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, History of cities (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (Text: Hartmann Schedel ), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
