| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| 455 | King Geiseric led this invasion from North Africa, then vandalised the place | Vandals | 96%
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| 410 | Led by King Alaric, these people themselves were fleeing the invading Huns | Visigoths | 86%
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| 1870 | The Papal States ended when King Victor Emmanuel II completed the unification of this country | Italy | 82%
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| 1943 | Former allies who turned on their hosts after the Armistice of Cassibile during WWII | Germany | 75%
|
| 546 | King Totila was in charge of this lot when they took Rome from the Byzantines | Ostrogoths | 75%
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| 1084 | Pope Gregory VII probably regretted requesting military aid from Robert Guiscard’s mercenaries | Normans | 71%
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| 390 BC | King Brennus of the Senones tribe sacked the city after defeating a Roman army at the Battle of the Allia | Cisalpine Gauls | 64%
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| 1527 | Ironically, underpaid troops of Emperor Charles V mutinied and sacked the city during the War of the League of Cognac | Holy Roman Empire | 57%
|
| 846 | These seaborne raiders plundered and sacked right up to the Aurelian Walls, including the basilicas of Old St Peter’s and St Paul’s | Aghlabids | 39%
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