Year | Description | Answer | % Correct |
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1192 | Shoguns replace emperors as the de-facto leaders of this country | Japan | 94%
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1156 | The Kremlin is constructed in this city. At first, it is merely a wooden wall. | Moscow | 94%
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1163 | Construction begins on this famous Paris cathedral | Notre Dame | 93%
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1096 | First evidence of teaching at this university, England's oldest | Oxford | 93%
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1187 | This Chinese navigational device is first used in Europe | Compass | 91%
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1189 | This "lionheart" king is crowned in England | Richard I | 91%
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1185 | This device for grinding grain is first used in Europe | Wind{mill} | 89%
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1099 | The First Crusade comes to an end with the capture of this city | Jerusalem | 84%
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1040 | This technology is invented in China, 400 years before Gutenberg | Movable type | 83%
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1016 | Cnut the Great, prince of this country, conquers England | Denmark | 78%
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1066 | This Norman ruler conquers England | William the Conqueror | 78%
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1001 | Leif Ericson establishes settlements in this modern-day country, which he called "Vinland" | Canada | 76%
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1170 | Thomas Becket, archbishop of this city, is murdered on orders from Henry II | Canterbury | 72%
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early 1100s | This famous temple complex is built in Cambodia | Angkor Wat | 66%
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1054 | The "Great Schism" permanently separates the church of Rome from the church of this city | Constantinople | 65%
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1010 | This oldest surviving copy of this epic Old English poem is written | Beowulf | 57%
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1189–1192 | This Muslim leader resists the Third Crusade, earning the crusaders' respect | Saladin | 51%
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1054 | Astronomers in many parts of the world observe this type of occurrence, whose remnants today form the Crab Nebula | Supernova | 50%
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1086 | This book lists all the taxable property in England | Domesday Book | 45%
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1104 | This European naval power starts using an assembly line process to mass produce ships | Venice | 45%
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