Statistics for European History by Letter - M

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Extremely influential socialist philosopher and economist (Karl)	Marx	97%
This Sicilian term is now used for criminal organizations all over the world	Mafia	96%
Marched on Rome with his blackshirts in 1923 and installed fascism (Benito)	Mussolini	94%
The world’s first industrial city	Manchester	91%
She didn’t really say “Let them eat cake”	Marie Antoinette	91%
Famous composer of the Classical period in Vienna and child prodigy (“Magic Flute”, “Don Giovanni”)	Mozart	87%
Simply THE renaissance family	Medici	84%
The attack of their hordes in 1240 spread panic in Europe	Mongols	83%
These muslims occupied (and brought a rich culture to) the Iberian peninsula	Moors	78%
American reconstruction plan for Europe after WWII	Marshall Plan	67%
A building for monks, Saint Athanasius in Bulgaria is considered the first of its kind on European territory	Monastery	67%
Soldiers with early forms of rifles used between the 16th and 19th century, made famous by an Alexandre Dumas novel featuring D’Artagnan	Musketeers	67%
Battle site of the antiquity allegedly 42.195 km from Athens	Marathon	61%
This 19th century Silesian biologist is considered the founder of genetics (Gregor)	Mendel	57%
Ugric people possibly from the Ural region migrating to present-day Hungary in the 9th century	Magyars	55%
First advanced culture in Europe, possibly destroyed by the eruption of the same name	Minoan	33%
This medieval term for borderland lives on in the name of many European regions, among them a country in Scandinavia	March/Mark	30%
Turbulent era in European history with Germanic, Slavic and Turkic tribes finding new places to settle	Migration period	28%
First Frankish dynasty, sometimes linked with the legend of the Holy Grail in popular fiction	Merovingians	26%
These brothers taught mankind to fly	Montgolfière	6%