14th Century A-Z

For each letter of the alphabet, guess these answers related to the years 1301–1400.

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	Year	Hint	Answer
A	1309–77	French city which served as the seat of the Papacy	Avignon
B	1347–51	Plague which killed about 1/3rd of the population of Europe	Black Death
C	1387	Author who began work on "The Canterbury Tales"	Geoffrey Chaucer
D	1397	Country who entered into the "Kalmar Union" with Sweden and Norway	Denmark
E	1346	English heir who gained the nickname "The Black Prince" at the Battle of Crécy	Edward
F	1300s	Animal often blamed for the spread of B	Flea
G	1400	Flemish wool-trading center whose population of 70,000 made it the 10th largest city in Europe	Ghent
H	1337	Series of conflicts which started between England and France	Hundred Years' War
I	1300s	Period of cooler weather in Europe which started during this time period	Little Ice Age
J	1333	Country whose Muromachi Period began	Japan
K	1392	Peninsula where the Joseon dynasty came to power	Korea
L	1300s	Weapon which was instrumental to English victories in H	Longbow
M	1300s	Gold-rich empire whose capital was Timbuktu	Mali
N	1300s	German city considered by some to be the "unofficial capital" of the Holy Roman Empire	Nuremberg
O	1355	City where one hundred people were killed when local citizens fought students in the St. Scholastica Day riot	Oxford
P	1333	Country where Casimir the Great came to power	Poland
Q	1300s	Feathered serpent who was worshiped at the Great Pyramid of Cholula in modern-day Mexico	Quetzalcoatl
R	1300s	Cultural "rebirth" which started in Italy	The Renaissance
S	1353	Country whose "Old Confederacy" expanded to eight cantons	Switzerland
T	1300s	Steppe lord who conquered much of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population in the process	Timur the Lame
U	1320	The crime of lending money at interest which, according to Dante's "Inferno", consigned one to the 7th circle of hell	Usury
V	1300s	Italian naval power which fought multiple wars against Genoa	Venice
W	1305	Scottish patriot who was hanged, drawn, and quartered in London	William Wallace
X	1387	City on the Taiwan Strait where China built a fortress as a response to piracy	Xiamen
Y	1368	Chinese dynasty, established by Kublai Khan, which came to an end	Yuan
Z	1300s	City whose great enclosure was the largest stone structure in sub-Saharan African during this period	Great Zimbabwe

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19 Comments

Level 67

Feb 23, 2018

Wow... the 1300s were a terrible time for Europe.

Level ∞

Feb 24, 2018

Not so hot for Asia either!

Level 76

Feb 23, 2018

Brilliant, finding an answer for all of A to Z for such an obscure century!

Level 58

Aug 7, 2018

Obscure?

Level 82

Feb 24, 2018

I never knew that about Oxford, maybe they don't tell that tale to us students in case we try to repeat it...

Level 72

Mar 3, 2018

Oslo, Osaka, Orleans ... what other cities beginning with 'O' are there? Oh yeah, that one just down the road which I forgot

Level 92

Jul 31, 2018

Omsk, Odessa, Osnabruck, Oppeln, pre-Columbian Omaha

Level 75

Feb 24, 2018

A typo where "Kulbai" should be "Kublai" ? - Otherwise great quiz, awesome with not being only about Europe, but around the world.

Level 86

Jun 19, 2018

There's still a typo in Kublai.

Level ∞

Jun 19, 2018

Okay fixed

Level 74

Feb 24, 2018

Great seris of quizzes, those last two were tough. There were four or five answers that I had no notion about.

Level 60

Mar 9, 2018

I just read up on the St. Scholastica day riot. Very interesting. Essentially a barfight that got out of hand and lasted 2 days.

I imagine there must have been building tensions between the locals and the students for quite a while before the incident

Level 60

Jul 9, 2018

I surprisingly did way better on this one than the 20th or 19th century quizzes

Level 82

Jul 30, 2018

The "Black Prince" nickname is recorded in later writings after his death, at the time he was known as Edward of Woodstock

Level 21

Nov 18, 2021

Hey, just wanted to say that it should be 'insect' instead of 'animal' at letter F, as it could be confused with rat.

Level 80

Dec 7, 2021

Rat doesn't begin with an F though so it can't be the answer, and insects are animals.

Level 74

Jul 28, 2023

AVIGNON MENTIONNED ↖(^▽^)↗

Level 61

Apr 15, 2026

It would be really nice if we could have "Tamburlaine" as a type-in for T

Level 79

Apr 16, 2026

Just missed Ghent

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