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Chronological World History - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 82 times
- The average score is 158 of 350
Answer Stats
| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 528 BC | This man, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, attains Enlightenment while sitting under the Bodhi tree | Buddha | 89%
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| 404 BC | This city-state defeats Athens in the Peloponnesian War | Sparta | 83%
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| 5th century BC | The general Sun Tzu supposedly writes this famous text | The Art of {War} | 81%
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| 312 BC | The first _____ is built to bring water into the city of Rome | Aqueduct | 75%
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| 509 BC | This city overthrows its last king, becoming a republic | Rome | 75%
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| 218 BC | Hannibal brings his army and elephants over this mountain range to attack the Roman Republic | The Alps | 75%
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| 432 BC | This temple is completed on the Acropolis of Athens | The Parthenon | 75%
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| c. 551 BC | This great Chinese philosopher is born | Confucius | 72%
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| 323 BC | Having conquered Persia, this "great" general dies at age 33 | Alexander the Great | 72%
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| 210 BC | Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, dies and is buried with this collection of at least 8000 statues | The {Terracotta} Army | 72%
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| 4 BC | Possible date for the birth of this important religious figure | Jesus Christ | 72%
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| 2nd century BC | This trade route network connecting Europe with China begins to be used | Silk Road | 72%
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| 221 BC– | Qin Shi Huang constructs this giant fortification by joining several existing fortifications | The Great Wall | 72%
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| 391 | One of several times that the library in this city was destroyed or vandalized | Alexandria | 69%
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| 453 | This infamous ruler of the Huns dies | Attila | 69%
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| 264–241 BC | Rome defeats this city in the First Punic War, taking Sicily and Corsica as prizes | Carthage | 69%
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| 1187 | This Chinese navigational device is first used in Europe | Compass | 69%
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| 122–128 | This defensive fortification in northern England is constructed | {Hadrian}'s Wall | 69%
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| c. 586 BC | This city is conquered by the Babylonians, ending the kingdom of Judah and forcing its people into exile | Jerusalem | 69%
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| 64 | Much of the city of Rome is destroyed by fire. This emperor would later be accused of "fiddling" while it burned. | Nero | 69%
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| 1096 | First evidence of teaching at this university, England's oldest | Oxford | 69%
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| 522 | Byzantine monks steal the secret of making this fabric from the Chinese | Silk | 69%
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| 793 | These northern sea people raid the British Isles for the first time | Vikings | 69%
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| c. 770 | This disease leaves Europe. It will reappear with a vengeance around 1350. | Black Death | 67%
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| 80 | This Roman amphitheatre is completed | Colosseum | 67%
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| 226 BC | This wonder of the Ancient World collapses after an earthquake | Colossus of {Rhodes} | 67%
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| 800s | This system, where vassals pay homage to lords, becomes common in Western Europe | {Feudal}ism | 67%
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| 3rd century BC | Aristarchus of Samos proposes this model of the solar system, where the Earth revolves around the sun | {Helio}centric | 67%
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| c. 570 | Muhammad is born in this city | Mecca | 67%
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| c. 100 | The Pyramid of the Sun is completed in the city of Teotihuacán, located in this modern-day country | Mexico | 67%
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| c. 450 | The city of Teotihuacan, located in this modern-day country, reaches its zenith with a population of about 150,000 | Mexico | 67%
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| 1156 | The Kremlin is constructed in this city. At first, it is merely a wooden wall. | Moscow | 67%
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| 1163 | Construction begins on this famous Paris cathedral | Notre Dame | 67%
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| 393 | These athletic contests are abolished. They would be restored again in 1896. | Olympic Games | 67%
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| 1189 | This "lionheart" king is crowned in England | Richard I | 67%
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| 476 | This empire comes to an end, marking the beginning of the Middle Ages | Western Roman Empire | 67%
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| early 1100s | This famous temple complex is built in Cambodia | Angkor Wat | 64%
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| 800 | This Frankish ruler is crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day | Charlemagne | 64%
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| 691 | Wu Zetian becomes the first and only Empress of this country | China | 64%
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| 30 BC | This last Egyptian pharaoh commits suicide. Later legends would say an asp was involved. | Cleopatra | 64%
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| before 150 BC | The Romans invent this building material | Concrete | 64%
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| 490 BC | Phidippides runs 25 miles to announce the Greek victory over Persia at this battle | Battle of {Marathon} | 64%
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| c. 430 BC | This Greek historian writes "Histories" | Herodotus | 64%
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| 1192 | Shoguns replace emperors as the de-facto leaders of this country | Japan | 64%
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| 79 | This volcano erupts, destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum | Mt. Vesuvius | 64%
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| 845 | This city on the Seine is sacked by the Vikings | Paris | 64%
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| 722 | The Reconquista begins in this country. It would end 727 years later with the fall of the Emirate of Granada. | Spain | 64%
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| 2 | The population of China is recorded as 59,594,978 - most of whom live near this river | Yellow River | 64%
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| 14 | This first Roman Emperor dies after a reign of 40 years | Augustus | 61%
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| 762 | The Abbasid Caliphate founds this capital on the Tigris River | Baghdad | 61%
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| 61 | This Celtic queen dies in a revolt against the Romans | Boudica | 61%
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| 814 | This great Frankish ruler dies | Charlemagne | 61%
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| 500s | This board game spreads from India to Persia | Chess | 61%
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| 800s | This Mesoamerican society collapses. We're still trying to figure out why. | Classic Maya | 61%
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| c. 500 BC | The Persian empire reaches its peak under this ruler. About 40% of the world's population is under his reign. | {Darius} the Great | 61%
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| 691 | This Islamic shrine is completed on Jerusalem's Temple Mount | Dome of the {Rock} | 61%
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| 50–58 BC | Julius Caesar conquers this region. Ancient sources say a million Celts were killed, and another million enslaved. | Gaul | 61%
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| 982 | Erik the Red settles on this island | Greenland | 61%
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| 367 | Roman garrisons on this wall rebel, allowing Picts to invade and overrun northern England | {Hadrian}'s Wall | 61%
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| c. 320 | The beginning of the Gupta dynasty in this modern-day country | India | 61%
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| 1099 | The First Crusade comes to an end with the capture of this city | Jerusalem | 61%
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| 1271 | This Venetian explorer embarks on an epic journey to China | Marco Polo | 61%
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| 1299 | This empire is founded by Osman I in modern-day Turkey | Ottoman Empire | 61%
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| c. 387 BC | This philosopher founds the Academy in Athens | Plato | 61%
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| 73–71 BC | This gladiator leads a rebellion of an estimated 120,000 slaves | Spartacus | 61%
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| 44 BC | Julius Caesar is assassinated on this day of the year | The Ides of March | 61%
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| 58–75 | This religion spreads into China during the reign of Emperor Ming | Buddhism | 58%
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| 1209 | This university, England's second oldest, is founded | Cambridge | 58%
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| 146 BC | The Third Punic War ends with the complete destruction of this city | Carthage | 58%
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| 391 | Theodosius I makes this the state religion of the Roman Empire | Christianity | 58%
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| 1066 | This Norman ruler conquers England | William the Conqueror | 58%
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| 6th century BC | This civilization in modern-day Tuscany reaches its apex | Etruscan | 58%
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| c. 300 BC | Euclid compiles “Elements”, the foundational text of this branch of mathematics | Geometry | 58%
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| 537 | This famous church (now a mosque) is completed in Constantinople | Hagia Sophia | 58%
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| 240 BC | The passage of this comet is recorded for the first time | Halley’s Comet | 58%
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| 874 | Ingólfr Arnarson becomes the first person to settle on this island (according to the sagas) | Iceland | 58%
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| 632 | Muhammad dies in this city | Medina | 58%
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| 508 | Clovis makes this city the capital of the Frankish Empire | Paris | 58%
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| 541–542 | This disease, spread by Yersinia pestis bacteria, makes its first appearance, devastating the Byzantine empire | Plague | 58%
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| 1245 | Construction begins on this London Abbey, burial site of monarchs | Westminster | 58%
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| 800s | This number is "invented" in India | Zero | 58%
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| 1010 | This oldest surviving copy of this epic Old English poem is written | Beowulf | 56%
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| 1347–1351 | This pandemic kills perhaps 40% of Europe's population | Black Death | 56%
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| 446 | This religion is legally abolished in China, the first of four separate times this would happen | Buddhism | 56%
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| 1170 | Thomas Becket, archbishop of this city, is murdered on orders from Henry II | Canterbury | 56%
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| 1492 | This explorer "discovers" the New World | Christopher Columbus | 56%
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| 1054 | The "Great Schism" permanently separates the church of Rome from the church of this city | Constantinople | 56%
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| 1206–1227 | This Mongolian Khan conquers much of Central Asia | Genghis Khan | 56%
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| 394 | The last known occurrence of this style of Egyptian writing | Hieroglyphics | 56%
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| c. 370 | These Asiatic steppe warriors arrive in Europe | Huns | 56%
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| 1215 | King John of England is forced to sign this "Great Charter" | Magna Carta | 56%
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| 1325 | The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan is founded on the site of this modern-day city | Mexico City | 56%
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| c. 30 | Jesus is crucified after a trial presided over by this Roman governor | Pontius Pilate | 56%
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| c. 432 | This saint arrives in Ireland | Saint Patrick | 56%
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| 1189–1192 | This Muslim leader resists the Third Crusade, earning the crusaders' respect | Saladin | 56%
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| c. 150 BC | Alexandros of Antioch creates this famous, now armless, statue | {Venus} de Milo | 56%
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| 1520 | Hernán Cortés conquers this Native American empire | Aztec Empire | 53%
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| 1001 | Leif Ericson establishes settlements in this modern-day country, which he called "Vinland" | Canada | 53%
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| 550 BC | This conqueror founds the First Persian Empire | {Cyrus} the Great | 53%
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| 1662 | This flightless bird of Mauritius goes extinct | Dodo | 53%
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| 1558 | This "Virgin Queen" is crowned in England | Elizabeth I | 53%
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| 400s | Angles, Saxons, and Jutes begin to raid and settle this island | Great Britain | 53%
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| 1430 | Norse settlements on this island collapse with no survivors | Greenland | 53%
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| c. 160 BC | First celebration of this Jewish holiday marking the repurification of the Temple and candles which miraculously burned for 8 days | Hanukkah | 53%
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| 1337 | The beginning of this long-lasting war between England and France | Hundred Years' War | 53%
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| 1687 | This English scientist explains gravity | Isaac Newton | 53%
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| 1274–1281 | The Mongols attempt a naval conquest of this nation, but are twice scattered by typhoons | Japan | 53%
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| 1271 | This Mongolian Khan conquers China, forming the Yuan dynasty | Kublai Khan | 53%
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| 359–336 BC | Under Philip II, this kingdom becomes the leading Greek power | Macedonia | 53%
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| 5th century BC | This Mesoamerican civilization, known for its "colossal head" sculptures, comes to an end | Olmecs | 53%
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| 126 | This temple to all gods is dedicated in Rome | Pantheon | 53%
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| c. 100 | In China, Cai Lun invents a new technique for making this substance, forever changing how information is transmitted | Paper | 53%
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| 543 BC | Prince Vijaya founds the first Sinhalese kingdom on this island | Sri Lanka | 53%
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| 1300s | This cultural "rebirth" begins in Florence, Italy | The Renaissance | 53%
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| 820 | This branch of equation-solving mathematics is invented by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī | Algebra | 50%
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| 996 | This present-day country is named for the first time - as "Ostarrîchi" | Austria | 50%
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| 1406–1420 | The Forbidden City palace is built in this capital | Beijing | 50%
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| 601 | St. Augustine becomes the first archbishop of this English city | Canterbury | 50%
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| 961 | The Byzantines reconquer this Mediterranean island | Crete | 50%
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| 1308 | This Italian poet begins work on his "Divine Comedy" | Dante | 50%
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| 1582 | This modern calendar replaces the Julian calendar | Gregorian Calendar | 50%
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| 1605 | Guy Fawkes and other radicals launch this plot to blow up Parliament | {Gunpowder} Plot | 50%
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| 202 BC | This dynasty comes to power in China | Han | 50%
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| 4 BC | Death of this king of Judea, known for the biblical (but not historical) Massacre of the Innocents | Herod the Great | 50%
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| 1547 | This "terrible" leader becomes Tsar of all the Russias | Ivan the Terrible | 50%
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| 1431 | This female French warrior is burned at the stake by the English | Joan of Arc | 50%
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| 1643 | This "Sun King" is crowned | Louis XIV | 50%
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| 1517 | This monk nails "Ninety-Five Theses" to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany | Martin Luther | 50%
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| 1508–1512 | This artist paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo | 50%
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| 663 | According to legend, this Japanese volcano's summit is reached for the first time | Mount Fuji | 50%
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| c. 95 | This last book of the New Testament is written by John of Patmos | Revelation | 50%
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| 1799 | French troops uncover this relic, the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs | {Rosetta} Stone | 50%
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| 301 | Supposed date for the founding of this country on Mount Titano, making it the world's oldest republic in continuous existence | San Marino | 50%
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| 1469 | This country is united after Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castille | Spain | 50%
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| 1653 | This white marble mausoleum is completed in Mughal India | Taj Mahal | 50%
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| 1382 | John Wycliffe is the first person to translate this document into English | The Bible | 50%
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| 3rd century BC | Earliest evidence of writing from this Mesoamerican people | The Mayans | 50%
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| 1497 | This Portuguese explorer sails from Europe to India | Vasco da Gama | 50%
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| 1282 | This British country is conquered by Edward Longshanks | Wales | 50%
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| 1455–1487 | The houses of Lancaster and York fight this series of war for the English crown | Wars of the {Roses} | 50%
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| 1564 | This dramatist is born in Stratford-upon-Avon | William Shakespeare | 50%
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| 1185 | This device for grinding grain is first used in Europe | Wind{mill} | 50%
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| 1309–1377 | Popes shun Rome to live in this French city | Avignon | 47%
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| 1789 | Rioters attack this notorious Parisian prison | Bastille | 47%
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| 330 | This city becomes the new capital of the Roman Empire | Constantinople | 47%
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| 1453 | This city is captured by the Turks, ending the Byzantine empire | Constantinople | 47%
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| 1400s | The Medici family become de-facto rulers of this city | Florence | 47%
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| 1562–98 | Catholics and Huguenots fight several religious wars in this country | France | 47%
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| 1377 | Richard II is the last English king to take his royal oath in this language | French | 47%
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| 1276 | This royal house comes to power in Austria, a position they would retain for over 600 years | Habsburg | 47%
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| 629 | This Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca is held for the first time | Hajj | 47%
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| 399 BC | Socrates is forced to commit suicide by drinking this type of poison | Hemlock | 47%
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| 531–579 | Khosrow I rules the Sasanian Empire, based in this modern-day country | Iran | 47%
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| 1603 | The Edo period begins in this country | Japan | 47%
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| 1543 | This scientist publishes his theory that the Earth revolves around the sun | Nicolaus Copernicus | 47%
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| 1683 | This Middle East empire reaches its maximum territorial extent | Ottoman Empire | 47%
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| 1450 | Johannes Gutenberg invents this device (although it already existed in China) | Printing press | 47%
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| 1869 | This canal is completed in Egypt | Suez Canal | 47%
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| 1291 | Three cantons form a confederation that would eventually grow into this modern nation | Switzerland | 47%
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| 262 | Goths damage or destroy this Ancient Wonder of the World (hint: a goddess) | Temple of {Artemis} | 47%
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| late 1500s | Sir Walter Raleigh popularizes this New World product | Tobacco | 47%
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| 1776 | This country declares independence from Great Britain | United States | 47%
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| 1448–1476 | This Wallachian ruler becomes infamous for impaling enemies | Vlad the Impaler | 47%
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| 829 | This national animal of Wales appears for the first time | Welsh Dragon | 47%
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| 400s–500s | Han Chinese people begin to settle the area south of this river | Yangtze | 47%
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| 878 | This great Anglo-Saxon king defeats the heathen army at the Battle of Edington | Alfred the Great | 44%
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| 850 | The Abbasid Caliphate reaches its greatest extent with this city as its capital | Baghdad | 44%
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| 1258 | Mongols sack this Middle Eastern capital, ending the Islamic Golden Age | Baghdad | 44%
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| 2008 | This person is elected as the first African-American President of the U.S. | Barack Obama | 44%
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| 1873 | Levi Strauss invents this type of clothing | Blue Jeans | 44%
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| c. 470 BC | Departing from this Mediterranean city-state, Hanno the Navigator explores the African coast as far south as Cameroon | Carthage | 44%
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| 1945–1991 | The U.S. and Soviet Union fight this "war" | Cold War | 44%
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| 1016 | Cnut the Great, prince of this country, conquers England | Denmark | 44%
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| c. 140 | Ptolemy completes his "Almagest", an astrological treatise which places this at the center of the universe | Earth | 44%
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| 1889 | This tower becomes the world's tallest man-made structure | {Eiffel} Tower | 44%
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| 1580 | This English sea captain circumnavigates the globe | Francis Drake | 44%
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| 220 | This dynasty comes to an end in China | Han | 44%
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| 247 BC | The Parthian Empire is founded in this modern-day country | Iran | 44%
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| 70 | The Temple in this city is destroyed by Roman troops | Jerusalem | 44%
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| 565 | This "great" Byzantine emperor dies after a long and eventful reign | Justinian | 44%
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| 1490 | This artist draws "The Vitruvian Man" | Leonardo da Vinci | 44%
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| 1666 | A fire in Pudding Lane spreads and destroys much of this city | London | 44%
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| 1324 | This empire in northwest Africa annexes the city of Timbuktu | Mali | 44%
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| 180 | This stoic philosopher and emperor dies, marking the start of the long decline of the Roman Empire | Marcus Aurelius | 44%
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| c. 250 | The beginning of this Mesoamerican society's Classical Period | Mayan | 44%
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| 1620 | This ship of Pilgrims lands in Massachusetts | Mayflower | 44%
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| 1969 | This man becomes the first to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong | 44%
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| 1837–1901 | This queen rules the British Empire for most of the century | Queen Victoria | 44%
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| 843 | Kenneth MacAlpin I becomes the first king of this country | Scotland | 44%
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| 1588 | This country launches a doomed armada against England | Spain | 44%
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| 420 | This city is founded on a lagoon in the Adriatic | Venice | 44%
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| 697 | The first doge is elected in this Adriatic republic | Venice | 44%
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| 1791 | This Austrian composer dies of fever at age 35 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 44%
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| c. 700 | This Chinese city, then known as Chang'an, is the largest city in the world with a population of about 1 million (HINT: starts with X) | Xi'an | 44%
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| 1815 | Napoleon meets his final defeat at this battle | Battle of Waterloo | 42%
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| 1718 | This pirate, born Edward Teach, is killed by the Royal Navy | Blackbeard | 42%
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| 1500 | Pedro Álvares Cabral claims this country for Portugal | Brazil | 42%
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| 969 | This African city is founded by the Fatimid general Jawhar | Cairo | 42%
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| 481 BC | This period of Chinese history comes to an end | {Spring} and Autumn Period | 42%
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| 1086 | This book lists all the taxable property in England | Domesday Book | 42%
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| 1605 | Miguel de Cervantes publishes this novel | Don Quixote | 42%
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| 1633 | This scientist is punished by the Roman Inquisition for espousing heliocentrism | Galileo Galilei | 42%
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| late 1300s | This author writes "The Canterbury Tales" | Geoffrey Chaucer | 42%
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| 958 | This Danish king gains power... 1,039 years later, a wireless technology would be named after him | Harald Bluetooth | 42%
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| 1519 | Charles V becomes leader of this Germanic empire | Holy Roman Empire | 42%
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| 1307 | This knightly order is surpressed in France, with many burned at the stake | Knights {Templar} | 42%
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| 482 | This city is founded on the Dnieper river, at least according to tradition | Kyiv | 42%
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| 1958–1961 | This ruler's "Great Leap Forward" causes 30 million people to starve to death | Mao Zedong | 42%
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| 1793 | This queen is beheaded by guillotine | Marie Antoinette | 42%
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| 1368 | This dynasty comes to power in China | Ming | 42%
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| 1653 | This military leader becomes Lord Protector of England | Oliver Cromwell | 42%
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| 1839–1860 | China fights two wars with western powers over this drug | Opium | 42%
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| 609 | This Roman building, originally a temple to all gods, is transformed into a church | Pantheon | 42%
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| 1941 | Japanese forces launch a surprise attack on this naval base | Pearl Harbor | 42%
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| 1485 | This hunchbacked King of England meets his end at the Battle of Bosworth Field | Richard III | 42%
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| 1912 | This famous ocean liner hits an iceberg and sinks | RMS Titanic | 42%
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| 1328 | This King, called "The Bruce", leads Scotland to independence from England | Robert the Bruce | 42%
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| 1796 | Edward Jenner invents a vaccine for this disease | Smallpox | 42%
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| 960 | This "musical" Chinese dynasty is established | Song | 42%
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| 1506 | Construction begins on this massive Roman basilica | St. Peter's | 42%
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| 2022 | Russia invades this country | Ukraine | 42%
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| 1865 | This political leader is assassinated at Ford's Theater | Abraham Lincoln | 39%
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| 2005 | This person is elected as the first female chancellor of Germany | Angela Merkel | 39%
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| 1415 | Against great odds, Henry V defeats the French at this famous battle | Battle of Agincourt | 39%
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| 717–718 | The Umayyad Caliphate besieges this largest and most important of Christian cities - but fails to capture it | Constantinople | 39%
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| 1962 | The U.S. and Soviet Union have a tense stand-off over missiles in this country | Cuba | 39%
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| 1519 | This explorer launches the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe (although he would die on the way) | Ferdinand Magellan | 39%
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| 1818 | Mary Shelley publishes this horror novel | Frankenstein | 39%
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| 1914 | This archduke is assassinated, sparking WWI | Franz Ferdinand | 39%
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| 200 BC–1 BC | Pakistan is ruled by people speaking this language, left over from Alexander’s conquests | Greek | 39%
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| c. 1760s | This "Revolution" begins in Great Britain before spreading to the rest of the world | Industrial Revolution | 39%
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| 1501– | Ismail I reunites this country and makes Shia the official state religion | Iran | 39%
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| 1300s | This period of global cooling begins. It would last 500 years. | Little {Ice} {Age} | 39%
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| 47 | Romans found this city on the River Thames | Londinium | 39%
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| 1803 | The United States buys this territory from France | Louisiana | 39%
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| 1701 | This militant German kingdom is formed under Frederick I | Prussia | 39%
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| 427 | This city becomes the capital of the Korean kingdom "Goguryeo" | Pyongyang | 39%
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| 1637 | This philosopher writes "Cogito ergo sum" - I think, therefore I am | René Descartes | 39%
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| 18 BC | First mention of this capital city on the Han River | Seoul | 39%
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| 1688 | The Glorious Revolution brings this Dutch king to England | {William} of Orange | 39%
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| 2019 | The Covid-19 pandemic starts in this city | Wuhan | 39%
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| 415 | The pagan philosopher Hypatia is murdered in this African city | Alexandria | 36%
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| 944 | This city becomes capital of the Khmer Empire | Angkor | 36%
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| 1831 | This naturalist begins his famous journey on the HMS Beagle | Charles Darwin | 36%
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| 1405–1433 | This country launches a "treasure fleet" of over 300 ships dispensing gifts throughout the Indian Ocean | China | 36%
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| 2014–15 | An outbreak of this disease kills more than 10,000 people in West Africa | Ebola | 36%
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| 639 | Arabs conquer this country, the "bread basket" of the Byzantine Empire | Egypt | 36%
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| 1400s | This sport is invented in Scotland | Golf | 36%
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| 1979 | Protestors seize power in this country and establish a theocracy | Iran | 36%
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| 2003 | The U.S. invades this country, looking for weapons of mass destruction, but doesn't find any | Iraq | 36%
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| 1778 | This sea captain "discovers" Hawaii | James Cook | 36%
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| 1824 | This composer completes his ninth and final symphony | Ludwig van Beethoven | 36%
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| 708 | This small island, today one of France's biggest tourist attractions, is fortified | Mont-Saint-Michel | 36%
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| 1602– | This country dominates the spice trade | Netherlands | 36%
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| 1819 | This "liberator" becomes the first President of Gran Colombia | Simón Bolívar | 36%
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| 165–180 | The Roman Empire is struck by a plague, thought to be this disease | Smallpox | 36%
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| 600s | This footrest for horse riders spreads to Europe, making mounted knights more effective, and potentially bringing about feudalism | Stirrups | 36%
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| 1836 | This short-lived republic declares independence from Mexico | Texas | 36%
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| 1618–1648 | This war devastates most of Germany | Thirty Years' War | 36%
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| 2009 | This sprinter sets a new record for the 100m dash: 9.58 seconds | Usain Bolt | 36%
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| 978 | Construction begins on St. Mark's Basilica in this city | Venice | 36%
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| 1297 | This Scottish commander defeats English forces at the Battle of Stirling Bridge | William Wallace | 36%
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| 2001 | This terrorist organization launches the 9/11 attacks against the United States | Al-Qaeda | 33%
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| 1287 | An enormous flood creates the Zuider Zee, giving this city access to the sea | Amsterdam | 33%
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| 1455–1502 | This Spanish family produces two Popes, notorious for vice and corruption | Borgia | 33%
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| 1st century BC | This “ism” becomes the official ideology of the Chinese state | Confucianism | 33%
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| 1204 | This city, the largest in Christendom, is conquered by Latin knights during the Fourth Crusade | Constantinople | 33%
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| 1922 | This "ism" rises to prominence as Benito Mussolini becomes leader of Italy | Fascism | 33%
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| 1717 | The first Grand Lodge of this secret society is formed in London | Freemasonry | 33%
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| 800s | While looking for an elixir of immortality, Chinese alchemists invent this mortality-causing substance | Gunpowder | 33%
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| 1804 | This country becomes independent following a slave revolt | Haiti | 33%
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| 1356 | This league of cities is formed for the purpose of trade on the North and Baltic Seas | {Hanseatic} League | 33%
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| 1557 | Portugal establishes this trading colony in China | Macau | 33%
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| 325 | This statement of Christian belief is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea | Nicene {Creed} | 33%
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| c.100 | "Codexes", or modern books, replace these as the preferred method of preserving written information in the Roman Empire | Scrolls | 33%
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| 1918–1920 | This pandemic kills over 3% of the world's population | {Spanish} Flu | 33%
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| 1209 | This impoverished saint founds the order of Friars Minor | St. Francis | 33%
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| 1703 | Peter the Great founds this capital on the Gulf of Finland | St. Petersburg | 33%
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| 2011 | This international protest movement leads to the overthrow of the governments of Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, and Libya | The {Arab} Spring | 33%
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| 1877 | This inventor patents the phonograph | Thomas Edison | 33%
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| 283 | The Romans briefly capture the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, located on this river | Tigris | 33%
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| 2004 | This type of natural disaster kills over 200,000 people in 14 countries | Tsunami | 33%
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| 1104 | This European naval power starts using an assembly line process to mass produce ships | Venice | 33%
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| c. 268 BC | This "great" ruler of the Maurya Empire comes to power in modern-day India | Ashoka the Great | 31%
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| 1776 | Adam Smith writes the first book about this "dismal science" | Economics | 31%
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| 1936 | This British king abdicates | Edward VIII | 31%
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| 1825 | This canal connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean | Erie Canal | 31%
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| 2004 | This website is started in a Harvard dorm room | 31%
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| 1397 | First evidence of this predecessor to the piano | Harpsichord | 31%
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| 527 BC | Mahavira, the 24th supreme preacher of this Indian religion, attains nirvana | {Jain}ism | 31%
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| 578 | The Kongō Gumi company is founded in this country. It would remain as an independent business until 2006. | Japan | 31%
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| 2008 | This swimmer wins 8 gold medals at the Summer Olympics | Michael Phelps | 31%
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| 286 | This city, then known as Mediolanum, is made the capital of the Western Roman Empire | Milan | 31%
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| 1513 | This Florentine diplomat writes his political treatise, "The Prince" | Niccolò Machiavelli | 31%
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| 1955 | Jonas Salk announces a vaccine for this disease | Polio | 31%
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| 1300s | This Germanic order conquers much of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia | {Teutonic} Knights | 31%
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| 117 | Under this emperor, the Roman Empire reaches its maximal extent | Trajan | 31%
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| 1637 | Dutch speculators go wild for this type of flower | Tulip | 31%
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| 1st century BC | King Mithridates of Pontus ingests sub-lethal doses of this poison to build up a tolerance | Arsenic | 28%
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| 732 | Charles Martel's victory at this battle ends Arab encroachment into France | Battle of {Tours} | 28%
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| 1732 | This Philadelphia printer publishes "Poor Richard's Almanack" for the first time | Benjamin Franklin | 28%
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| 1946 | The ENIAC is hailed as the world's first example of this common modern device | Computer | 28%
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| 1933 | This political figure says "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 28%
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| c. 257 BC | This Asian city on the Red River is established as capital of the Âu Lạc Kingdom | Hanoi | 28%
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| 1783 | Man takes flight as the Montgolfier brothers demonstrate this invention | Hot Air Balloon | 28%
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| 1930 | This leader marches to the sea to get salt and defy British rule | Mohandas Gandhi | 28%
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| 1370 | After 100 years of rule, this group of foreign conquerors is expelled from China | Mongols | 28%
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| 1915 | This empire systematically kills an estimated 1.5 million Armenians | Ottoman Empire | 28%
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| 397–400 | This philosopher and theologian writes his "Confessions" | Saint {Augustine} | 28%
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| 1756–1763 | Great Britain, France, Austria, and other powers fight this world war | Seven Years' War | 28%
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| 2011 | This African nation becomes the 193rd member of the UN | South Sudan | 28%
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| 1054 | Astronomers in many parts of the world observe this type of occurrence, whose remnants today form the Crab Nebula | Supernova | 28%
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| 2015 | A record 1.3 million people request asylum in the EU, with the largest number coming from this wartorn nation | Syria | 28%
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| 1759 | This enlightened French philosopher publishes "Candide" | Voltaire | 28%
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| 2012 | This leader ascends to power in China, marking an era of increased state surveillance and abuse of ethnic minorities | Xi Jinping | 28%
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| 1215 | This style of Buddhism is brought from China to Japan | Zen | 28%
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| 1517 | Ottoman sultan Selim I claims this title, asserting leadership over the entirety of the Muslim world | Caliph | 25%
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| 1927 | This pilot becomes the first to make a non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris | Charles Lindbergh | 25%
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| 1611 | This very popular English bible is completed | King James Version | 25%
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| c. 52 BC | The Romans found this city on the river Seine | Lutetia (Paris) | 25%
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| 1908–1927 | This car model, nicknamed the "Tin Lizzie", sells over 16.5 million units | Model T | 25%
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| 2015 | 195 nations meet in this city and agree to lower carbon emissions, but generally fail to meet their commitments | Paris | 25%
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| 1644 | This dynasty comes to power in China | Qing | 25%
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| 1795 | The British Navy discovers that this disease can be prevented by drinking lemon juice | Scurvy | 25%
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| 477 | This Chinese monastery, famous for its martial arts, is founded | Shaolin | 25%
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| 1844 | "What hath God wrought" is the first message sent using this new technology | Telegraphy | 25%
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| 2008 | The world enters a sharp economic downturn which is commonly known as this | The Great {Recession} | 25%
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| 220–280 | This period of Chinese history occurs | Three {Kingdom}s | 25%
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| 1360– | This "lame" ruler conquers most of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population | Timur | 25%
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| 1916 | Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. clinic to provide information about this practice | Birth Control | 22%
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| 1999 | Atmospheric levels of this greenhouse gas reach 365ppm, an increase of over 25% since 1900 | Carbon Dioxide | 22%
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| 53 BC | This wealthiest of Roman citizens loses his army and his life trying to conquer the Parthian Empire | Marcus Crassus | 22%
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| 1865 | Edward Whymper leads the first party to climb this Swiss peak | Matterhorn | 22%
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| 1400s | This giant bird is driven to extinction by Maori hunters in New Zealand | Moa | 22%
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| 2nd century BC | Liu An invents this pressed bean curd product | Tofu | 22%
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| 1487 | The Duke of Bavaria makes laws concerning the purity of this substance | Beer | 19%
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| 284–305 | This emperor stabilizes the Roman Empire but also makes it much more bureaucratic and autocratic | Diocletian | 19%
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| 1225 | This Catholic philosopher is born. He would late become known as "Doctor of the Church". | Thomas Aquinas | 19%
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| 1670 | This fur trading company, Canada's oldest, is established | Hudson's Bay Company | 17%
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| 1788 | This Scottish poet composes "Auld Lang Syne" | Robert Burns | 17%
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| 1719 | Daniel Defoe writes this book, sometimes considered the first English-language novel | Robinson Crusoe | 17%
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| 1494 | First evidence of this "water of life" in Scotland | Scotch whisky | 17%
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| 1816–1828 | This warrior-king unites many Zulu tribes | Shaka Zulu | 17%
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| 1824 | This Romantic poet dies while fighting for Greek independence | Lord Byron | 14%
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| 2005 | This dwarf planet, 27% larger than Pluto, is dicovered and named for the Greek goddess of discord | Eris | 11%
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| 1040 | This technology is invented in China, 400 years before Gutenberg | Movable type | 11%
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| 2001 | This country becomes the first in the world to legalize same-sex marriage | Netherlands | 11%
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| 235–284 | The Roman Empire experiences this chaotic era | The {Crisis} of the Third Century | 11%
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| 2003 | Scientists announce the completion of a project to sequence this | The Human Genome | 11%
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| 274 or 277 | This prophet dies in Iran. He created a religion in which the world is a battle between good and evil. | Mani | 6%
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