| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| ca. 982 - This Viking, who has been exiled from Iceland because of a murder, reaches Greenland | Erik the Red | 62%
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| 969 - The new caliphate that began in 909 conquers Egypt and makes this city its capital | Cairo | 60%
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| 911 - The treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte is signed between King Charles III and this Viking leader | Rollo | 50%
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| 929 - Abd ar-Rahman III makes a califate of this Umayyad Emirate | Cordoba | 48%
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| 909 - This new caliphate begins in North Africa | Fatimid | 48%
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| 987 - The Capetian dynasty is founded by this King of France | Hugh Capet | 40%
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| 910 - This influential Benedictine abbey is founded by Guillaume I of Aquitaine | Cluny | 30%
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| 980 - This other figure of the Islamic Golden Age and Persian polymath is born near Bukhara. | Avicenna | 23%
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| 955 - This battle is a decisive victory over the Hungarias for King Otto I the Great | Lechfeld | 21%
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| 933 - This kingdom is created by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy | Arles | 19%
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| 997 - This Grand Prince of the Hungarians begins his reign | Stephen I | 19%
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| 962 - This Pope crowns Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor in Rome | John XII | 6%
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| 904 - The sack of this city by the Saracen pirates is disaster for the Byzantine empire | Thessalonica | 6%
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| 950 - This great philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age dies in Damascus | Al Farabi | 5%
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| 999 - This French promoter of the study of Arab and Greco-Roman sciences becomes pope | Gerbert of Aurillac | 2%
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