| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| c. 570 | Muhammad is born in this city | Mecca | 95%
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| 500s | This board game spreads from India to Persia | Chess | 91%
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| 522 | Byzantine monks steal the secret of making this fabric from the Chinese | Silk | 90%
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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 | 89%
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| 541–542 | This disease, spread by Yersinia pestis bacteria, makes its first appearance, devastating the Byzantine empire | Plague | 89%
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| c. 432 | This saint arrives in Ireland | Saint Patrick | 89%
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| 476 | This empire comes to an end, marking the beginning of the Middle Ages | Western Roman Empire | 89%
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| 453 | This infamous ruler of the Huns dies | Attila | 85%
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| 400s | Angles, Saxons, and Jutes begin to raid and settle this island | Great Britain | 83%
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| 508 | Clovis makes this city the capital of the Frankish Empire | Paris | 82%
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| 446 | This religion is legally abolished in China, the first of four separate times this would happen | Buddhism | 81%
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| 537 | This famous church (now a mosque) is completed in Constantinople | Hagia Sophia | 75%
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| 420 | This city is founded on a lagoon in the Adriatic | Venice | 73%
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| 400s–500s | Han Chinese people begin to settle the area south of this river | Yangtze | 73%
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| 578 | The Kongō Gumi company is founded in this country. It would remain as an independent business until 2006. | Japan | 67%
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| 531–579 | Khosrow I rules the Sasanian Empire, based in this modern-day country | Iran | 64%
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| 482 | This city is founded on the Dnieper river, at least according to tradition | Kyiv | 64%
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| 427 | This city becomes the capital of the Korean kingdom "Goguryeo" | Pyongyang | 64%
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| 415 | The pagan philosopher Hypatia is murdered in this African city | Alexandria | 61%
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| 565 | This "great" Byzantine emperor dies after a long and eventful reign | Justinian | 46%
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| 477 | This Chinese monastery, famous for its martial arts, is founded | Shaolin | 39%
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