| Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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| 1346-1353 | Terrible pandemic which sweeps through Europe, Asia and North Africa, killing up to 50 million people | Black Death | 100%
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| 800 | Pope Leo III crowns this Frankish leader, who becomes the first Emperor in the west since 476 | Charlemagne | 100%
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| 1096 | The start date of this Christian military endeavor to conquer the Holy Land | First Crusade | 100%
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| 622 | Muhammad, the founder of Islam, escapes from Mecca and takes refuge in this Arabian city | Medina | 100%
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| 1163 | Construction begins on this Parisian cathedral | Notre-Dame | 100%
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| 476 | This Empire falls after more than 1000 years of history | Western Roman Empire | 100%
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| 1258 | The Mongols sack this capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, ending the Islamic Golden Age | Baghdad | 90%
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| 1031 | The Umayyad Caliphate based in this now-Spanish city collapses into many princedoms called taifas | Cordoba | 90%
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| 1453 | Constantinople, last bastion of the Byzantine Empire, falls to Mehmed II, ruler of this turkic dynasty | Ottomans | 80%
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| 1492 | Nation who finances the expedition of Columbus to America, an event which traditionally ends the Middle Ages | Spain | 80%
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| 1324 | This faboulously rich ruler of the Mali Empire completes his Hajj to Mecca | Mansa Musa | 70%
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| 1402 | The empire, which comprised much of central Asia and northern India, led by this turkic ruler reaches its greatest extent | Timur | 70%
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| 886 | This Wessex ruler becomes the first King of England (or rather King of the Anglo-Saxons) | Alfred the Great | 60%
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| 1469 | This "Magnificent" patron of the arts becomes de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic | Lorenzo de' Medici | 60%
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| 1428 | Alliance of three city-states that manages to take over most of the Valley of Mexico | Aztec Empire | 50%
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| 793 | A raid on a monastery found on this English island kickstarts the Viking Age | Lindisfarne | 30%
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| 1215 | King John Lackland signs this document, paving the way to the first forms of English parliamentarianism | Magna Charta | 20%
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| 589 | Chinese Dynasty who managed to reunify the Country after more than two centuries | Sui | 20%
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| 1405-1433 | This Chinese admiral travels across Asia with his treasure fleet | Zheng He | 20%
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| 955 | Otto I, later Emperor, defeats the Hungarians in this great battle | Battle of Lechfeld | 10%
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