Statistics for The 11th and 12th Century

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