14th Century A-Z - Statistics

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Letter	Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
B	1347-51	This plague kills around 1/3rd of the population of Europe	{Black} Death	99%
D	1397	This country enters into the "Kalmar Union" with Sweden and Norway	Denmark	97%
H	1337	This series of conflicts between England and France begins	{Hundred} {Years}' War	90%
R	1300s	This cultural "rebirth" begins in Italy	The Renaissance	89%
J	1333	The Muromachi period begins in this country	Japan	85%
I	1300	This period of cooler weather begins	Little {Ice} {Age}	85%
E	1346	This English heir gains the nickname "The Black Prince" at the Battle of Crécy	Edward	83%
V	1300s	This Italian naval power fights multiple wars against Genoa	Venice	78%
K	1392	The Joseon dynasty comes to power on this peninsula	Korea	77%
N	1300s	This German city is considered by some historians to be the "unofficial capital" of the Holy Roman Empire	Nuremberg	74%
M	1300s	Timbuktu is the capital of this gold-rich empire	Mali	73%
F	1300s	This animal is often blamed for the spread of B	Flea	71%
S	1353	This country's "Old Confederacy" expands to eight cantons	Switzerland	70%
W	1305	This Scottish patriot is hung, drawn, and quartered in London	William Wallace	68%
P	1333	Casimir the Great comes to power in this country	Poland	64%
C	1387	This author begins work on "The Canterbury Tales"	Geoffrey Chaucer	63%
A	1309-77	This French city is the seat of the Papacy	Avignon	61%
L	1300s	This weapon is instrumental to English victories in H	Longbow	54%
G	1400	With a population of 70,000, this Flemish wool-trading center is the tenth largest city in Europe	Ghent	49%
Q	1300s	This feathered serpent is worshipped at the Great Pyramid of Cholula in modern-day Mexico	{Quetzal}coatl	45%
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	36%
Y	1368	This Chinese dynasty, established by Kublai Khan, comes to an end	Yuan	35%
O	1355	Nearly one hundred people are killed as local citizens fight students in this city's St. Scholastica Day riot	Oxford	33%
T	1300s	This steppe lord conquers much of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population in the process	{Timur} the Lame	30%
X	1387	In response to piracy, China builds a fortress at the site of this city on the Taiwan strait	Xiamen	25%
Z	1300s	This city's great enclosure is the largest stone structure south of the Sahara	Great {Zimbabwe}	20%