14th Century A-Z

For each letter of the alphabet, guess these answers related to the years 1301-1400.

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First submitted	February 23, 2018
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	Year	Hint	Answer
A	1309-77	This French city is the seat of the Papacy	Avignon
B	1347-51	This plague kills around 1/3rd of the population of Europe	Black Death
C	1387	This author begins work on "The Canterbury Tales"	Geoffrey Chaucer
D	1397	This country enters into the "Kalmar Union" with Sweden and Norway	Denmark
E	1346	This English heir gains the nickname "The Black Prince" at the Battle of Crécy	Edward
F	1300s	This animal is often blamed for the spread of B	Flea
G	1400	With a population of 70,000, this Flemish wool-trading center is the tenth largest city in Europe	Ghent
H	1337	This series of conflicts between England and France begins	Hundred Years' War
I	1300	This period of cooler weather begins	Little Ice Age
J	1333	The Muromachi period begins in this country	Japan
K	1392	The Joseon dynasty comes to power on this peninsula	Korea
L	1300s	This weapon is instrumental to English victories in H	Longbow
M	1300s	Timbuktu is the capital of this gold-rich empire	Mali
N	1300s	This German city is considered by some historians to be the "unofficial capital" of the Holy Roman Empire	Nuremberg
O	1355	Nearly one hundred people are killed as local citizens fight students in this city's St. Scholastica Day riot	Oxford
P	1333	Casimir the Great comes to power in this country	Poland
Q	1300s	This feathered serpent is worshipped at the Great Pyramid of Cholula in modern-day Mexico	Quetzalcoatl
R	1300s	This cultural "rebirth" begins in Italy	The Renaissance
S	1353	This country's "Old Confederacy" expands to eight cantons	Switzerland
T	1300s	This steppe lord conquers much of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population in the process	Timur the Lame
U	1320	According to Dante's "Inferno", people who commit this crime of lending money at interest belong in the 7th circle of hell	Usury
V	1300s	This Italian naval power fights multiple wars against Genoa	Venice
W	1305	This Scottish patriot is hung, drawn, and quartered in London	William Wallace
X	1387	In response to piracy, China builds a fortress at the site of this city on the Taiwan strait	Xiamen
Y	1368	This Chinese dynasty, established by Kublai Khan, comes to an end	Yuan
Z	1300s	This city's great enclosure is the largest stone structure south of the Sahara	Great Zimbabwe

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28 Comments

Level 66

Feb 23, 2018

Wow... the 1300s were a terrible time for Europe.

Level ∞

Feb 24, 2018

Not so hot for Asia either!

Level 76

Feb 23, 2018

Brilliant, finding an answer for all of A to Z for such an obscure century!

Level ∞

Feb 24, 2018

Thanks! It wasn't easy. But, sadly, there won't be a 13th century A-Z.

Level 81

Jul 24, 2018

Here you go.

13th Century A-Z

Level 81

Jul 30, 2018

Mostly Crusades and Mongols. The average score is 15, only 2 behind this one, and a few answers could probably be replaced with easier stuff if you wanted to dumb it down.

Level 58

Aug 7, 2018

Obscure?

Level 83

Feb 24, 2018

I never knew that about Oxford, maybe they don't tell that tale to us students in case we try to repeat it...

Level 74

Mar 3, 2018

Oslo, Osaka, Orleans ... what other cities beginning with 'O' are there? Oh yeah, that one just down the road which I forgot

Level 90

Jul 31, 2018

Omsk, Odessa, Osnabruck, Oppeln, pre-Columbian Omaha

Level 76

Feb 24, 2018

A typo where "Kulbai" should be "Kublai" ? - Otherwise great quiz, awesome with not being only about Europe, but around the world.

Level 83

Jun 19, 2018

There's still a typo in Kublai.

Level ∞

Jun 19, 2018

Okay fixed

Level 73

Feb 24, 2018

Great seris of quizzes, those last two were tough. There were four or five answers that I had no notion about.

Level 61

Mar 9, 2018

I just read up on the St. Scholastica day riot. Very interesting. Essentially a barfight that got out of hand and lasted 2 days.

I imagine there must have been building tensions between the locals and the students for quite a while before the incident

Level 54

Jul 9, 2018

I surprisingly did way better on this one than the 20th or 19th century quizzes

Level 78

Jul 30, 2018

The "Black Prince" nickname is recorded in later writings after his death, at the time he was known as Edward of Woodstock

Level 82

Jul 31, 2018

Sorry to be a pedant but William Wallace was "hanged", drawn and quartered. Pictures are hung, humans are hanged.

Level 90

Jul 31, 2018

People really don't care about some irregular verb being correct versus incorrect due to some buffoon "rule".

Level 80

Feb 17, 2021

Please correct the clue to 'hanged', drawn and quartered instead of 'hung'. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the only correct past tense for this sense of the word 'hang' is 'hanged', not 'hung'.

Level 88

Sep 4, 2023

To be fair, there is literally a featured article for "Hanged, drawn, and quartered" on Wikipedia, and "Hung, drawn, and quartered" is a redirect to that very page.

Level 66

Aug 1, 2018

Agreed. To say a person is hung is....rather inappropriate.

Level 72

Jul 27, 2019

Haha.. when you put it that way...

Level 72

Jul 27, 2019

I guess some people are hanged others are hung and some are both..

Level 21

Nov 18, 2021

Hey, just wanted to say that it should be 'insect' instead of 'animal' at letter F, as it could be confused with rat.

Level 75

Dec 7, 2021

Rat doesn't begin with an F though so it can't be the answer, and insects are animals.

Level 73

Jul 28, 2023

AVIGNON MENTIONNED ↖(^▽^)↗

Level 73

Jul 28, 2023

Avignon mentionned ↖(^▽^)↗

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