Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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808 - The Taoist priest Qing Xuzi mentions the formula for this chemical explosive in his Taishang Shengzu Jindan Mijue: six parts sulfur to six parts saltpeter to one part birthwort herb. It will be centuries until it reaches the European battlefields however | gunpowder | 76%
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845 - This city of the Kingdom of Charles the Bald is besieged by the Vikings of Ragnar Lodbrok | Paris | 76%
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882 - Oleg, a descendant of the Varangian chieftain Riurik, conquers this Slavic city | Kiev | 69%
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827 - The first permanent Arab settlement is established on this Byzantine ruled island of the Mediterranean sea | Sicily | 68%
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871 - This prince, who was confirmed in Rome by Pope Leo IV as a child, succeeds his father Æthelwulf as King of Wessex | Alfred | 63%
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885 - This Viking, who will become the first ruler of Normandy, leads the siege of Paris | Rollo | 45%
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896 - This people, led by Árpád, settles the Carpathian Basin and begins incursions to Western Europe | Magyar | 44%
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ca. 859 - This cradle of Russian statehood is first mentionned in the chronicles as well as the Varangian chieftain Riurik | Novgorod | 43%
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800 - This Pope crowns Charlemagne emperor in Rome on the 25th of December | Leo III | 35%
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843 - This treaty ends the three-year Caroligian Civil War between the three grand-sons of Charlemagne | Verdun | 35%
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869 - The 8th Catholic Ecumenical Council is held in this city to remedy a schismatic situation | Constantinople | 22%
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864 - This ruler of Bulgaria, regarded as a saint in the Orthodox Church, converts to Christianity | Boris | 16%
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887 - This son of Louis the German, who purchased peace with Vikings raiders twice, accepts his deposition | Charles III | 9%
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842 - Mutual pledges of allegiance between Louis the German, ruler of East Francia, and his half-brother, Charles the Bald, are signed in this city | Strasburg | 4%
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870 - This treaty is an agreement between Louis the German and Charles the Bald to share the territories of the heirs of their late brother Lothair I | Mersen | 2%
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