Statistics for Famous People from the 8th Century AD

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
"Father of Europe", who became the first Frankish Emperor and defeated the Saxons	Charlemagne	100%
Pope, who crownded him as emperor	Leo III	70%
Frankish statesman and military leader, who defeated the Arabs at the Battle of Tours	Charles Martel	59%
First Frankish King of the Karolingian dynasty	Pepin the Short	41%
"Apostle of the Germans", who helped establish Christianity in Germany	Saint Boniface	41%
Leader of a chinese rebellion, which devestated the country and sparked the downfall of the Tang dynasty	An Lushan	19%
Pope, who asked him for help against the Langobards, crowned him king and founded the Papal State	Stephen II	15%
King of Saxony, who lost against the Franks and was forced to be baptized and accept Frankish rule over Saxony	Widukind	15%
Member of the Ummayad Dynasty, who fled the Abbasids to Spain and became Caliph of Cordoba	Abd al-Rahman	7%
Great chinese poet, called "Saint of Poetry" or "Poet-Sage"	Du Fu	7%
Great chinese poet, who wrote "Quiet Night Thoughts"	Li Bai	7%
Leader of the Abbasid Rebellion and first caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty	Abu Muslim	4%
Second Abbasidian Caliph, who consolidated the Rule of his Dynasty and founded Baghdad	Al-Mansur	4%
Ummayad caliph, who brought the Caliphat to its biggest extend and build great mosques like the Al-Aqsa Mosque	Al-Walid	4%
Ummayad commander, who conquered large parts of Iberia	Tariq ibn Ziyad	0%