Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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874 | Ingólfr Arnarson becomes the first person to settle on this island (according to the sagas) | Iceland | 89%
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845 | This city on the Seine is sacked by the Vikings | Paris | 88%
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996 | This present-day country is named for the first time - as "Ostarrîchi" | Austria | 87%
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982 | Erik the Red settles on this island | Greenland | 83%
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800s | This number is "invented" in India | Zero | 80%
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800s | This system, where vassals pay homage to lords, becomes common in Western Europe | {Feudal}ism | 75%
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829 | This national animal of Wales appears for the first time | Welsh Dragon | 74%
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820 | This branch of equation-solving mathematics is invented by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī | Algebra | 73%
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814 | This great Frankish ruler dies | Charlemagne | 71%
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800s | This Mesoamerican society collapses. We're still trying to figure out why. | Classic Maya | 71%
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961 | The Byzantines reconquer this Mediterranean island | Crete | 69%
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843 | Kenneth MacAlpin I becomes the first king of this country | Scotland | 69%
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958 | This Danish king gains power... 1,039 years later, a wireless technology would be named after him | Harald Bluetooth | 66%
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969 | This African city is founded by the Fatimid general Jawhar | Cairo | 60%
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978 | Construction begins on St. Mark's Basilica in this city | Venice | 60%
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850 | The Abbasid Caliphate reaches its greatest extent with this city as its capital | Baghdad | 52%
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944 | This city becomes capital of the Khmer Empire | Angkor | 43%
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800s | While looking for an elixir of immortality, Chinese alchemists invent this mortality-causing substance | Gunpowder | 42%
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960 | This "musical" Chinese dynasty is established | Song | 38%
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878 | This great Anglo-Saxon king defeats a heathen army at the Battle of Edington | Alfred the Great | 35%
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