Statistics for The 5th and 6th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
c. 570	Muhammad is born in this city	Mecca	95%
500s	This board game spreads from India to Persia	Chess	91%
522	Byzantine monks steal the secret of making this fabric from the Chinese	Silk	91%
c. 450	The city of Teotihuacan, located in this modern-day country, reaches its zenith with a population of about 150,000	Mexico	90%
c. 432	This saint arrives in Ireland	Saint Patrick	90%
541–542	This disease, spread by Yersinia pestis bacteria, makes its first appearance, devastating the Byzantine empire	Plague	89%
476	This empire comes to an end, marking the beginning of the Middle Ages	Western Roman Empire	89%
453	This infamous ruler of the Huns dies	Attila	86%
446	This religion is legally abolished in China, the first of four separate times this would happen	Buddhism	82%
400s	Angles, Saxons, and Jutes begin to raid and settle this island	Great Britain	82%
508	Clovis makes this city the capital of the Frankish Empire	Paris	82%
537	This famous church (now a mosque) is completed in Constantinople	Hagia Sophia	76%
400s–500s	Han Chinese people begin to settle the area south of this river	Yangtze	74%
420	This city is founded on a lagoon in the Adriatic	Venice	73%
578	The Kongō Gumi company is founded in this country. It would remain as an independent business until 2006.	Japan	67%
531–579	Khosrow I rules the Sasanian Empire, based in this modern-day country	Iran	65%
427	This city becomes the capital of the Korean kingdom "Goguryeo"	Pyongyang	65%
482	This city is founded on the Dnieper river, at least according to tradition	Kyiv	63%
415	The pagan philosopher Hypatia is murdered in this African city	Alexandria	62%
565	This "great" Byzantine emperor dies after a long and eventful reign	Justinian	46%
477	This Chinese monastery, famous for its martial arts, is founded	Shaolin	38%