Statistics for Medieval French History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Deadly 14th century pandemic	Black Death	95%
Germanic people who gave France its name	Franks	92%
Long war fought between England and France	Hundred Years War	90%
Maid who beat the English at Orléans	Joan of Arc	89%
First university in France	University of {Paris}	89%
Founder of the Carolingian Empire	Charlemagne	88%
Region ceded to the Vikings in the 10th century	Normandy	88%
Catholic military order suppressed by Philip IV	Knights {Templar}	78%
Duke of this region who conquered England	William the Conqueror	76%
System of vassalage and peasant obligation	Feudalism	70%
City that housed several antipopes	Avignon	65%
Royal house of France from 987-1328	House of {Capet}	57%
Charles Martel stopped the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate here	Battle of {Tours}	55%
This empire's capital	Aachen	45%
Travelling lyric poets common in Southern France	Troubadour	39%
Empire dominant in Western France from 1154-1214	{Angevin} Empire	38%
Heretical movement suppressed by the Albigensian crusade	Catharism	38%
French king who defeated this empire	{Philip} Augustus	38%
Summa Theologica author who taught here	Thomas Aquinas	27%
Council that started the Crusades	Council of {Clermont}	19%

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