Statistics for 8th and 9th Century History

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
841	This Irish city is founded by Vikings	Dublin	90%
860s	The first Norse settlers arrive on this island	Iceland	89%
700s	In India, this number is created	Zero	78%
800s	This civilization of the Yucatan begins to decline	Maya	77%
700s	This epic poem is written and passed down in England	Beowulf	75%
868	Vimara Peres establishes this dependent county in west Iberia	Portugal	71%
794	Kammu moves the Japanese capital to this city, beginning the Heian period	Kyoto	67%
800	Pope Leo crowns this man Roman Emperor	Charlemagne	63%
871	This 'great' English king begins his tumultuous reign	Alfred the Great	62%
845	In China, this nontheistic religion is banned	Buddhism	61%
735	This "Father of English History" and 'Venerable' English monk dies	Bede	37%
732	At Tours, this 'Hammer' defeats the invading Arab armies	Charles Martel	34%
809	The Byzantines begin a destructive war with this northern neighbor	Bulgaria	32%
726	Emperor Leo smashes a graven image, beginning this controversy	Iconoclast	26%
711	The Moors cross the Gibraltar, creating this Muslim state in Iberia	Al-Andalus	24%
750	Marwan II is overthrown, this new Muslim caliphate begins	Abbasid	21%
878	The treaty that gave the Saxons and Danes portions of England	Wedmore	18%
830	In modern Mali/ Mauritania this empire is established	Ghana	12%
843	At this city, a treaty is made that divides the Frankish Empire into three parts	Verdun	12%
786	This smart, cunning caliph ruled during the Islamic Golden Age	Harun al-Rashid	8%

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