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Papal States, an Epic card
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 87
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 620,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Papal States quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Papal States card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to ____.
Answer
1870s. The Papal States, officially the State of the Church, were a conglomeration of territories on the Italian Peninsula under the direct sovereign rule of the pope from 756 to 1870. From the Papal States article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kurt Angle. Kurt Angle 93 · Wu Zetian 89 · Papal States 85 · Alice Weidel 82 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 among the major Italian states from the 8th century until the unification of Italy, which took place between 1859 and 1870, culminating in their incorporation into the Kingdom of Italy.
- The state was legally established in the 8th century when Pepin the Short, king of the Franks, gave Pope Stephen II, as a temporal sovereign, lands formerly held by Arian Christian Lombards, adding them to lands and other real estate formerly acquired and held by the bishops of Rome as landlords from the time of Constantine onward.
- This donation came about as part of a process whereby the popes began to turn away from the Byzantine emperors as their foremost temporal guardians for reasons such as increased imperial taxes, disagreement with respect to iconoclasm, and failure of the emperors to protect Rome and the rest of the peninsula from barbarian invasion and pillage.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Papal States article was read about 620,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 87: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Papal States
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Text : Wikipedia, Papal States (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Dinozzo2005, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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