When | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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1347–1351 | This pandemic kills perhaps 40% of Europe's population | Black Death | 94%
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1382 | John Wycliffe is the first person to translate this document into English | The Bible | 91%
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1300s | This cultural "rebirth" begins in Florence, Italy | The Renaissance | 89%
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1337 | The beginning of this long-lasting war between England and France | Hundred Years' War | 82%
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1325 | The Aztec city of Tenochtitlan is founded on the site of this modern-day city | Mexico City | 81%
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1377 | Richard II is the last English king to take his royal oath in this language | French | 79%
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1308 | This Italian poet begins work on his "Divine Comedy" | Dante | 77%
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1300s | This period of global cooling begins. It would last 500 years. | Little {Ice} {Age} | 77%
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1370 | After 100 years of rule, this group of foreign conquerors is expelled from China | Mongols | 73%
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1307 | This knightly order is surpressed in France, with many burned at the stake | Knights {Templar} | 71%
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1368 | This dynasty comes to power in China | Ming | 71%
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late 1300s | This author writes "The Canterbury Tales" | Geoffrey Chaucer | 64%
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1328 | This King, called "The Bruce", leads Scotland to independence from England | Robert the Bruce | 60%
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1397 | First evidence of this predecessor to the piano | Harpsichord | 51%
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1309–1377 | Popes shun Rome to live in this French city | Avignon | 46%
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1324 | This empire in northwest Africa annexes the city of Timbuktu | Mali | 43%
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1356 | This league of cities is formed for the purpose of trade on the North and Baltic Seas | {Hanseatic} League | 39%
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1300s | This Germanic order conquers much of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia | {Teutonic} Knights | 38%
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1360– | This "lame" ruler conquers most of Central Asia, killing 5% of the world's population | Timur | 25%
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