Statistics for History by Year (251-300AD)

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
260	Approximately now, the game of ___ is invented in India	Chess	77%
262	The Temple of ___ is destroyed by the Goths, being the first of the existing 7 wonders of the ancient world to be destroyed	Artemis	46%
286	Maximian defeats a rebellion and then an invasion of Gaul, and is awarded the title of ___, becoming co-emperor	Augustus	46%
281	A triumph is celebrated in Rome after the defeat of 3 usurpers and the ___ tribe	Vandal	46%
268	The ___ first appear as a distinct people from the Goths	Visigoths	46%
256	The Goths invade the Balkans and Anatolia, and the province of ___ is lost to the Romans	Dacia	38%
251	The ___ and Saxons begin raiding the coast of Britain	Franks	38%
278	The defeated ___ tribes are resettled in devastated Roman provinces in hopes of repopulating them	Germanic	38%
300	In Central America, the ___ civilization reaches its peak	Mayan	38%
296	The province of ___ is returned to the Roman Empire after having been controlled by rebels for 10 years	Britannia	31%
285	The above then appoints a fellow officer, Maximian to the post of ___ (junior emperor)	Caesar	31%
259	The ___ Empire is formed as modern Spain, France and Britain break away from Roman control	Gallic	31%
266	Odaenathus of ___ attempts to capture the Persian capital of Ctesiphon, but fails to breach its walls	Palmyra	31%
257	Under Valerian, the important city of ___ is recovered from Persia	Antioch	23%
271	The Romans finally withdraw their administration from Dacia, thereby shortening the ___ frontier	Danube	23%
252	A Roman army of ___ men is defeated in Syria by the Sassanids	70000	15%
261	The ___ tribe are crushed at Milan after ravaging the area for years	Alemanni	15%
294	Tiridates III of ___ is defeated by the Sassanids and flees to Rome	Armenia	15%
270	Following the death of the above, ___ replaces him and immediately repels a German invasion	Aurelian	15%
269	Claudius II becomes known as Claudius ___ for defeating the Goths in battle	Gothicus	15%
274	A temple is built and dedicated to ___ ___. The worship of this sun god becomes the state religion of Rome	Sol Invictus	15%
293	The ___ begins as Rome finds itself with 4 coexisting emperors	Tetrarchy	15%
267	The above is assassinated, and is succeeded by his wife, ___	Zenobia	15%
291	The ___, who will eventually establish themselves within modern France, are defeated by both the Goths and Alemanni	Burgundians	8%
255	A rebellion is crushed in the Chinese state of ___ ___	Cao Wei	8%
299	___ are expelled from the Roman army	Christians	8%
288	An army, probably led by future emperor ___, defeats a usurper in Gaul	Constantius	8%
279	The Jin Dynasty conquers the last of the Three Kingdoms in China (the ___ ___)	Eastern Wu	8%
253	The Roman empire is split in two, with Valerian taking the east and his son, ___, taking the west	Gallienus	8%
264	Sima Zhou, regent of Cao Wei, styles himself the King of ___	Jin	8%
290	The founder of the Jin dynasty dies, having reestablished the capital in ___	Luoyang	8%
287	Diocletian signs a peace treaty with the Persians and reorganises the ___ frontier in the east	Mesopotamian	8%
272	The ___ Empire in the Near East is brought to an end after the surrender of their queen to the Romans	Palmyrene	8%
283	The above exploits a civil war in the ___ Empire and invades, sacking the capital	Sassanid	8%
298	The manufacture of cultured ___ becomes popular from Korea to Japan	Silk	8%
297	Thirumalisai Alvar, one of the 12 ___ Saints, who is said to have lived for 4500 Years, dies	Azhwar	0%
282	___ becomes Roman Emperor after a successful usurpation in Raetia	Carus	0%
284	Diocletian becomes Roman Emperor, ushering in the ___ period	Dominate	0%
289	The future co-emperor of the above (___) distinguishes himself in a campaign against the Sarmatians	Galerius	0%
292	The ___ Code is produced. It is the first codification of Roman law	Gregorian	0%
295	In Rome, an edict is issued against the sexual crime of ___	Incest	0%
254	Pope (and saint) ___ dies after returning to Rome from exile	Lucius I	0%
273	King Hormizd I of Persia dies after a short reign in which he has shown tolerance to the anti-materialist ___ faith	Manichean	0%
275	The ___ Dynasty begins in Southern India	Pallava	0%
265	The Romans attempt to recover the breakaway state in the west, but are defeated by ___	Postumus	0%
276	After 2 Roman Emperors are murdered within a year, Emperor ___ invites the responsible factions to a banquet and massacres them, before burning a survivor alive	Probus	0%
258	The last of the Three Rebellions in ___ are crushed by Sima Zhou	Shouchun	0%
263	The Chinese state of ___ ___ is conquered, ending the Three Kingdoms period	Shu Han	0%
280	The ___ tribe appear in Central Germany. A modern state in Germany is named after them.	Thuringii	0%
277	Tuboa Xilu becomes the leader of the ___ clan in Northern China	Tuboa	0%