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Timeline of the 14th Century
How well do you remember historical events from 1301 until 1400?
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Last updated: February 19, 2021
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| First submitted | February 19, 2021 |
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1.
Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?
Dante Alighieri
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Marco Polo
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Ambrogio Lorenzetti
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Giovanni Boccaccio
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2.
According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Belgium
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Switzerland
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Denmark
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Germany
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3.
What was the name of the disease that killed nearly half the people of Europe in Middle Ages?
Typhus
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The Black death
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Influenza
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Spanish flu
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4.
What animal carried that disease and transferred it to humans?
Fleas
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Mosquitoes
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Dogs
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Birds
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5.
Which English king claimed to be the King of France and that caused the Hundred Years' War?
King John II
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King Charles IV
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King Edward III
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King Philip VI
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6.
How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
116 years
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86 years
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99 years
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100 years
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7.
From 1309 to 1376, seven successive popes resided in which French city?
Avignon
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Troyes
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Strasbourg
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Carcassonne
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8.
What was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty?
Jin
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Ming
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Qing
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Liao
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9.
In which present country did the Battle of Maritsa, when the Serbs were defeated by the Ottomans, take place in 1371?
Bulgaria
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Greece
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Albania
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Romania
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10.
Ibn Battuta was known for exploring Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years in the 14th century. Where was he from?
Algeria
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Egypt
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Morocco
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Saudi Arabia
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11.
Who did the Ottoman Empire fight in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Hungary
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Serbs
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Venice
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Holy Roman Empire
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12.
Which literary work is the story that describes Dante's view of the afterlife?
The Divine Comedy
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Vitruvian Man
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The Decameron
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Caedmon's Hymn
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13.
Who is often called the "Father of Humanism?"
Francesco Petrarch
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Giotto
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Dante Alighieri
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Leonardo da Vinci
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14.
Which English poet and author, widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, is best known for "The Canterbury Tales?"
Geoffrey Chaucer
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William Shakespeare
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Thomas More
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Edmund Spenser
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15.
Who was the promoter of the first complete translation of the Bible into English and one of the forerunners of the Protestant Reformation?
John Wycliffe
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Desiderius Erasmus
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John Calvin
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Willam Tyndale
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16.
What was the son of King Edward III known to history?
The White Prince
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The Great Prince
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The Black Prince
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The Red Prince
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17.
Where is Timbuktu, the important trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route in Middle Ages?
Mali
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Ghana
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Egypt
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Congo
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18.
In what wealthy and powerful Italian city did the Renaissance get its start in early 1300s?
Venice
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Milan
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Rome
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Florence
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Which German city was considered to be the "unofficial capital" of the Holy Roman Empire?
Ulm
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Bamberg
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Regensburg
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Nuremberg
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20.
Sir William Wallace died in 1305. He was a legendary Medieval knight of which nation?
England
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Wales
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Scotland
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Ireland
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