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Timeline of the Middle Ages

Year by year, how well do you remember historical events from the Middle Ages?
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Last updated: November 20, 2023
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1. When did the Western Roman Empire collapse?
476
433
533
576
2. Which city was established by Clovis as the capital of the Kingdom of the Franks in 508?
Paris
Carcassonne
Avignon
Toulouse
3. What was the name of the Codification of Roman Law written in 529?
Zeno’s Code
Tiberius’ Code
Justinian’s Code
Heraclius’ Code
4. What was originally Hagia Sophia when it was built in 537?
Roman Catholic cathedral
Mosque
Museum
Byzantine Christian cathedral
5. The first written account of the Loch Ness monster was in 566. Where is that lake located?
Ireland
Scotland
England
Wales
6. In 622, the year one of the Islamic calendar. Where did Muhammad take his followers?
Carthage
Medina
Cairo
Persia
7. Who fought in the Battle of Tours in the year 732?
Romans and Vikings
Franks and Muslims
Vikings and Franks
Muslims and Romans
8. Who did Charles the Great and Carloman succeed as Kings of the Franks in 768?
Charles Martel
Pepin the Short
Louis I the Pious
Clovis IV
9. In 800, on Christmas Day, Charles the Great was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by which pope?
Adrian I
Eugene II
Leo III
Stephen III
10. Which great Frankish ruler, the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, died in 814?
Pepin the Short
Clovis I
Charles the Great
Louis I the Pious
11. In 841, Vikings built a settlement on the south bank of the River Liffey, which it will eventually become which city?
Liverpool
Rotterdam
Dublin
Edinburgh
12. In 858, missionaries Cyril and Methodius invented the Cyrillic alphabet. Which of the nations do not use it today?
Bulgarians
Serbians
Russians
Romanians
13. Who were first settlers in Iceland in 830?
Vikings
Magyars
Franks
Frisians
14. What king of Wessex defeated the Danes and established a treaty with them in 886?
Alfred the Great
Charles the Great
King Henry VIII
King Aethelwulf
15. Which Viking became the first ruler of Normandy in 918?
Ragnar Lodbrok
Olaf Tryggvason
Harald Hardada
Rollo
16. What Germanic empire was formed under Otto I in 962?
The Holy Roman Empire
Frisian Empire
West Frankish Empire
Byzantine Empire
17. Which Norse explorer founded the first settlement in Greenland in 985?
Leif Erikson
Erik the Red
Roald Amundsen
Ragnar Lodbrok
18. What Native American civilization began in present-day Southern United States in years around 1000?
Colorado Culture
Mississippi Culture
Rio Grande Culture
Missouri Culture
19. Who was the first King of Hungary, crowned on 25 December 1000?
Saint Stephen I
Bela
Peter the Venetian
Andrew I
20. Who was the first European to land in North America around year 1001?
Halard Hardada
Erik the Red
Leif Ericson
Cnut the Great
21. What epic poem written in England around 1010 tells the story of a Scandinavian hero?
The Canterbury Tales
Beowulf
The Decameron
The Golden Legend
22. Cnut the Great, who conquered England in 1016 was prince of which country?
Iceland
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
23. In 1054, the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox churches separated from each other. Where are the headquarters of Eastern Orthodox Church?
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Constantinople
Belgrade
24. In which city was the famous St Mark's Basilica on St Mark's Square rebuilt in 1063?
Siena
Venice
Pisa
Florence
25. Which French Duke conquered England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England?
William of Normandy
Charles the Great
Clovis
Alfred the Great
26. The Tower of London in England was founded in 1078. What is the name of its central tower?
Silver Tower
White Tower
Black Tower
Golden Tower
27. Founded in 1088, which university was established as a center of study in law for students across Europe?
University of Padua
University of Salamaca
University of Coimbra
University of Bologna
28. Who captured Valencia from the Moors in 1094 and is considered the national hero of Spain?
El Coco
El Cid
Hernán Cortes
Pancho Villa
29. The earliest initiative for the First Crusade began in 1095 when which Byzantine Emperor requested military support in conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks?
Justinian
Alexios I Komnenos
Michael VIII Palaiologos
Basil II
30. Which university in England was founded in 1096?
Cambridge
St. Andrews
Manchester
Oxford
31. The Knights Templars were founded in 1119. Where were their headquarters?
Paris
Jerusalem
Florence
Constantinople
32. In which part of Paris the construction of medieval Catholic cathedral Notre-Dame began in 1163?
Ile Saint-Louis
Ile de la Cite
Nanterre
Saint-Denis
33. Who was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancelor of England, who was murdered in 1170 and later canonized as a martyr?
Reginald Fitzurse
Thomas Becket
Thomas More
Edward Grim
34. In which region of Italy the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in 1173?
Veneto
Emilia Romagna
Umbria
Tuscany
35. What empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206?
Chinese Empire
Byzantine Empire
Tibetan Empire
Mongol Empire
36. What document did the King John sign in 1215 that said the people had rights and that the king was not above the law?
The Magna Carta
The Constitution
The Charter of Liberties
The Liber Instrumentorum
37. Which city was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest?
Tikal
Cusco
Teotihuacan
Machu Picchu
38. Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?
Dante Alighieri
Giovanni Boccaccio
Marco Polo
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
39. According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Belgium
Switzerland
Germany
Denmark
40. From 1309 to 1376, seven successive popes resided in which French city?
Troyes
Carcassonne
Strasbourg
Avignon
41. What was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty?
Qing
Jin
Ming
Liao
42. In which present country did the Battle of Maritsa, when the Serbs were defeated by the Ottomans, take place in 1371?
Romania
Greece
Albania
Bulgaria
43. Who did the Ottoman Empire fight in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Holy Roman Empire
Hungary
Venice
Serbs
44. Sir William Wallace died in 1305. He was a legendary Medieval knight of which nation?
England
Scotland
Wales
Ireland
45. Who did England fight in the Battle of Agincourt in 1413?
Ireland
Denmark
Spain
France
46. In 1415, who was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church?
John Calvin
Martin Luther
Giordano Bruno
Jan Hus
47. Which ruler started the famous navigational school in Lisbon in 1419?
King Charles I
King Henry VII
King Ferdinand
Prince Henry
48. Where was construction of the Forbidden City completed in 1420?
Beijing
Rome
Jerusalem
Athens
49. How was Joan of Arc killed in 1431?
Hung
Drawn and quartered
Burned alive at the stake
Executed by guillotine
50. In which present day country was Machu Picchu constructed in 1450s?
Chile
Colombia
Peru
Bolivia
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Nov 20, 2023
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