Statistics for The 9th and 10th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
874	Ingólfr Arnarson becomes the first person to settle on this island (according to the sagas)	Iceland	89%
845	This city on the Seine is sacked by the Vikings	Paris	88%
996	This present-day country is named for the first time - as "Ostarrîchi"	Austria	87%
982	Erik the Red settles on this island	Greenland	83%
800s	This number is "invented" in India	Zero	80%
800s	This system, where vassals pay homage to lords, becomes common in Western Europe	{Feudal}ism	74%
829	This national animal of Wales appears for the first time	Welsh Dragon	74%
820	This branch of equation-solving mathematics is invented by Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī	Algebra	73%
800s	This Mesoamerican society collapses. We're still trying to figure out why.	Classic Maya	71%
814	This great Frankish ruler dies	Charlemagne	70%
961	The Byzantines reconquer this Mediterranean island	Crete	69%
843	Kenneth MacAlpin I becomes the first king of this country	Scotland	69%
958	This Danish king gains power... 1,039 years later, a wireless technology would be named after him	Harald Bluetooth	66%
978	Construction begins on St. Mark's Basilica in this city	Venice	61%
969	This African city is founded by the Fatimid general Jawhar	Cairo	60%
850	The Abbasid Caliphate reaches its greatest extent with this city as its capital	Baghdad	52%
800s	While looking for an elixir of immortality, Chinese alchemists invent this mortality-causing substance	Gunpowder	43%
944	This city becomes capital of the Khmer Empire	Angkor	42%
960	This "musical" Chinese dynasty is established	Song	37%
878	This great Anglo-Saxon king defeats the heathen army at the Battle of Edington	Alfred the Great	35%