| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Several Italian cities, including Venice and Genoa, were republics for centuries | True | 87%
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| Richard Lionheart led a Crusade | True | 85%
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| Notre dame de Paris was erected during the Middle Ages | True | 80%
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| Avignon in Southern France served as the seat of several Popes | True | 79%
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| Charlemagne ruled over a small territory around the city of Paris | False | 76%
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| The word "Dark Ages" refers to the decades following the Black Death epidemic (1347-). | False | 75%
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| In the year 1300, fewer than 100 000 people lived in all of Europe | False | 75%
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| Antiquity ended when the Mongols sacked Rome and overthrew the Emperor | False | 71%
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| Constantinople was held by Muslims throughout most of the Middle Ages. | False | 68%
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| The Hanseatic league was a Northern European trade confederation | True | 68%
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| Throughout the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church regularly staged elaborate witch-hunts, which only stopped after the rise of Protestantism | False | 59%
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| Windmills were invented during the Middle Ages | True | 59%
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| Before Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic, scholarly consensus held that the Earth was flat | False | 51%
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| Much of Germany was christianized by missionaries from the British Isles | True | 39%
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