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Timeline of the Middle Ages

Year by year, how well do you remember historical events from the Middle Ages?
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1. When did the Western Roman Empire collapse?
433 ✓
533 ✓
576 ✓
476 ✓
2. Which city was established by Clovis as the capital of the Kingdom of the Franks in 508?
Toulouse ✓
Paris ✓
Carcassonne ✓
Avignon ✓
3. What was the name of the Codification of Roman Law written in 529?
Heraclius’ Code ✓
Tiberius’ Code ✓
Justinian’s Code ✓
Zeno’s Code ✓
4. What was originally Hagia Sophia when it was built in 537?
Mosque ✓
Museum ✓
Byzantine Christian cathedral ✓
Roman Catholic cathedral ✓
5. The first written account of the Loch Ness monster was in 566. Where is that lake located?
Wales ✓
England ✓
Scotland ✓
Ireland ✓
6. In 622, the year one of the Islamic calendar. Where did Muhammad take his followers?
Cairo ✓
Carthage ✓
Persia ✓
Medina ✓
7. Who fought in the Battle of Tours in the year 732?
Muslims and Romans ✓
Vikings and Franks ✓
Romans and Vikings ✓
Franks and Muslims ✓
8. Who did Charles the Great and Carloman succeed as Kings of the Franks in 768?
Louis I the Pious ✓
Charles Martel ✓
Pepin the Short ✓
Clovis IV ✓
9. In 800, on Christmas Day, Charles the Great was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by which pope?
Leo III ✓
Stephen III ✓
Adrian I ✓
Eugene II ✓
10. Which great Frankish ruler, the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire, died in 814?
Clovis I ✓
Louis I the Pious ✓
Charles the Great ✓
Pepin the Short ✓
11. In 841, Vikings built a settlement on the south bank of the River Liffey, which it will eventually become which city?
Rotterdam ✓
Dublin ✓
Liverpool ✓
Edinburgh ✓
12. In 858, missionaries Cyril and Methodius invented the Cyrillic alphabet. Which of the nations do not use it today?
Russians ✓
Romanians ✓
Bulgarians ✓
Serbians ✓
13. Who were first settlers in Iceland in 830?
Frisians ✓
Franks ✓
Vikings ✓
Magyars ✓
14. What king of Wessex defeated the Danes and established a treaty with them in 886?
Charles the Great ✓
King Aethelwulf ✓
King Henry VIII ✓
Alfred the Great ✓
15. Which Viking became the first ruler of Normandy in 918?
Rollo ✓
Ragnar Lodbrok ✓
Olaf Tryggvason ✓
Harald Hardada ✓
16. What Germanic empire was formed under Otto I in 962?
Byzantine Empire ✓
The Holy Roman Empire ✓
Frisian Empire ✓
West Frankish Empire ✓
17. Which Norse explorer founded the first settlement in Greenland in 985?
Ragnar Lodbrok ✓
Leif Erikson ✓
Roald Amundsen ✓
Erik the Red ✓
18. What Native American civilization began in present-day Southern United States in years around 1000?
Mississippi Culture ✓
Missouri Culture ✓
Rio Grande Culture ✓
Colorado Culture ✓
19. Who was the first King of Hungary, crowned on 25 December 1000?
Peter the Venetian ✓
Saint Stephen I ✓
Andrew I ✓
Bela ✓
20. Who was the first European to land in North America around year 1001?
Halard Hardada ✓
Cnut the Great ✓
Erik the Red ✓
Leif Ericson ✓
21. What epic poem written in England around 1010 tells the story of a Scandinavian hero?
The Canterbury Tales ✓
The Decameron ✓
Beowulf ✓
The Golden Legend ✓
22. Cnut the Great, who conquered England in 1016 was prince of which country?
Norway ✓
Iceland ✓
Denmark ✓
Sweden ✓
23. In 1054, the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern Orthodox churches separated from each other. Where are the headquarters of Eastern Orthodox Church?
St. Petersburg ✓
Belgrade ✓
Constantinople ✓
Moscow ✓
24. In which city was the famous St Mark's Basilica on St Mark's Square rebuilt in 1063?
Florence ✓
Siena ✓
Pisa ✓
Venice ✓
25. Which French Duke conquered England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England?
Alfred the Great ✓
Clovis ✓
William of Normandy ✓
Charles the Great ✓
26. The Tower of London in England was founded in 1078. What is the name of its central tower?
Silver Tower ✓
Black Tower ✓
Golden Tower ✓
White Tower ✓
27. Founded in 1088, which university was established as a center of study in law for students across Europe?
University of Salamaca ✓
University of Bologna ✓
University of Padua ✓
University of Coimbra ✓
28. Who captured Valencia from the Moors in 1094 and is considered the national hero of Spain?
Pancho Villa ✓
El Cid ✓
El Coco ✓
Hernán Cortes ✓
29. The earliest initiative for the First Crusade began in 1095 when which Byzantine Emperor requested military support in conflict with the Seljuk-led Turks?
Justinian ✓
Basil II ✓
Alexios I Komnenos ✓
Michael VIII Palaiologos ✓
30. Which university in England was founded in 1096?
Oxford ✓
Cambridge ✓
St. Andrews ✓
Manchester ✓
31. The Knights Templars were founded in 1119. Where were their headquarters?
Paris ✓
Jerusalem ✓
Florence ✓
Constantinople ✓
32. In which part of Paris the construction of medieval Catholic cathedral Notre-Dame began in 1163?
Ile Saint-Louis ✓
Nanterre ✓
Ile de la Cite ✓
Saint-Denis ✓
33. Who was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancelor of England, who was murdered in 1170 and later canonized as a martyr?
Thomas More ✓
Reginald Fitzurse ✓
Thomas Becket ✓
Edward Grim ✓
34. In which region of Italy the construction of the Leaning Tower of Pisa started in 1173?
Tuscany ✓
Emilia Romagna ✓
Umbria ✓
Veneto ✓
35. What empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206?
Chinese Empire ✓
Tibetan Empire ✓
Byzantine Empire ✓
Mongol Empire ✓
36. What document did the King John sign in 1215 that said the people had rights and that the king was not above the law?
The Liber Instrumentorum ✓
The Charter of Liberties ✓
The Magna Carta ✓
The Constitution ✓
37. Which city was the historic capital of the Inca Empire from the 13th century until the 16th-century Spanish conquest?
Machu Picchu ✓
Teotihuacan ✓
Tikal ✓
Cusco ✓
38. Who is the author of the Decameron, the book that has a number of stories and describes life in 14th century Italy?
Dante Alighieri ✓
Giovanni Boccaccio ✓
Marco Polo ✓
Ambrogio Lorenzetti ✓
39. According to the legend William Tell is a 14th century folk hero from which country?
Switzerland ✓
Denmark ✓
Belgium ✓
Germany ✓
40. From 1309 to 1376, seven successive popes resided in which French city?
Carcassonne ✓
Strasbourg ✓
Troyes ✓
Avignon ✓
41. What was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty?
Jin ✓
Liao ✓
Ming ✓
Qing ✓
42. In which present country did the Battle of Maritsa, when the Serbs were defeated by the Ottomans, take place in 1371?
Albania ✓
Greece ✓
Romania ✓
Bulgaria ✓
43. Who did the Ottoman Empire fight in the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Serbs ✓
Hungary ✓
Holy Roman Empire ✓
Venice ✓
44. Sir William Wallace died in 1305. He was a legendary Medieval knight of which nation?
England ✓
Ireland ✓
Wales ✓
Scotland ✓
45. Who did England fight in the Battle of Agincourt in 1413?
Denmark ✓
Ireland ✓
France ✓
Spain ✓
46. In 1415, who was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church?
Giordano Bruno ✓
John Calvin ✓
Martin Luther ✓
Jan Hus ✓
47. Which ruler started the famous navigational school in Lisbon in 1419?
King Charles I ✓
King Ferdinand ✓
Prince Henry ✓
King Henry VII ✓
48. Where was construction of the Forbidden City completed in 1420?
Rome ✓
Athens ✓
Jerusalem ✓
Beijing ✓
49. How was Joan of Arc killed in 1431?
Drawn and quartered ✓
Hung ✓
Executed by guillotine ✓
Burned alive at the stake ✓
50. In which present day country was Machu Picchu constructed in 1450s?
Bolivia ✓
Chile ✓
Colombia ✓
Peru ✓
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