Letter | Year | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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E | 1270 | This future King of England, also known as Longshanks or Hammer of the Scots sets off on the 9th Crusade | Edward I | 96%
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G | 1220 | This Mongol Chieftain captures Bukhara on the way to conquering the largest contiguous land empire in history | Genghis Khan | 90%
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J | 1290 | This group of people were subject to the Edict of Expulsion from England at the orders of E | Jews | 88%
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M | 1271 | This explorer embarks on a 24 year expedition to Cathay (China) | Marco Polo | 88%
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C | 1204 | This Byzantine city is the somewhat surprising eventual target of the 4th Crusade | Constantinople | 87%
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B | 1258 | This Abbasid capital city is sacked by invading Mongols | Baghdad | 86%
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P | 1249 | King Afonso III united this country for the first time by conquering the Algarve | Portugal | 86%
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I | 1262 | The Old Covenant is signed in this country, leading to union with King Haakon IV of Norway | Iceland | 82%
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O | 1299 | This Dynasty was founded in Sogut (north west Anatolia) by Osman I, later growing into a vast Empire | Ottoman | 81%
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F | 1210 | In northern Italy this monk founded the first mendicant order to bear his name | Francis of Assisi | 78%
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T | 1225 | First name of the cleric, scholar and philosopher known as Aquinas, who was born in this year | Thomas | 75%
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V | 1221 | This maritime republic signs a trade treaty with the Mongol Empire | Venice | 73%
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W | 1297 | This rebel leader entered the First War of Scottish Independence by killing the Sheriff of Lanark | William Wallace | 71%
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U | 1261 | This Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is ordained Pope in Rome | Urban IV | 66%
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S | 1279 | This Chinese dynasty falls to the conquering Kublai Khan (Grandson of G) | Song | 61%
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X | 1227 | The Western branch of this Chinese dynasty, also known as the Tangut, comes to an end at the hands of the Mongols | Xia | 51%
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K | 1274 & 1281 | These divine winds helped destroy two separate invading Mongol fleets | Kamikaze | 45%
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Y | 1271 | This Chinese dynasty was formed by the invading Mongol Kublai Khan | Yuan | 44%
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N | 1240 | This river was the site of a talismanic Russian victory for Prince Alexander of Novgorod against invading Swedes and Danes | Neva | 39%
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D | 1206 | This Muslim Sultanate was established under the Mamluks in India after the breakup of the Rajput Confederacy | Delhi | 36%
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A | 1268 | This Levantine Crusader State falls to the Mamluk warlord Baibars | Antioch | 26%
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R | 1215 | Site where King John of England was forced by his barons to sign the Magna Carta | Runnymede | 26%
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L | 1266 | This Crusade in the Baltic States, part of the wider Northern Crusades, gave control to the Order of Teutonic Knights | Livonian | 22%
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Z | 1202 | This Christian city in modern-day Croatia was the first victim of the 4th Crusade | Zara / Zadar | 20%
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H | 1250 | Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II dies, ending the imperial reign of this noble family | Hohenstaufen | 12%
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Q | 1260 | This Mamluk Sultan is murdered by Baibars while returning to Egypt after their victory over the Mongols at Ain Jalut | Qutuz | 2%
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