Statistics for The History of Medieval Europe - 10th century

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
969 - The new caliphate that began in 909 conquers Egypt and makes this city its capital	Cairo	60%
ca. 982 - This Viking, who has been exiled from Iceland because of a murder, reaches Greenland	Erik the Red	58%
911 - The treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte is signed between King Charles III and this Viking leader	Rollo	46%
929 - Abd ar-Rahman III makes a califate of this Umayyad Emirate	Cordoba	44%
987 - The Capetian dynasty is founded by this King of France	Hugh Capet	43%
909 - This new caliphate begins in North Africa	Fatimid	42%
910 - This influential Benedictine abbey is founded by Guillaume I of Aquitaine	Cluny	34%
955 - This battle is a decisive victory over the Hungarias for King Otto I the Great	Lechfeld	22%
980 - This other figure of the Islamic Golden Age and Persian polymath is born near Bukhara.	Avicenna	20%
997 - This Grand Prince of the Hungarians begins his reign	Stephen I	17%
933 - This kingdom is created by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy	Arles	15%
904 - The sack of this city by the Saracen pirates is disaster for the Byzantine empire	Thessalonica	7%
950 - This great philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age dies in Damascus	Al Farabi	5%
962 - This Pope crowns Otto I the Great Holy Roman Emperor in Rome	John XII	5%
999 - This French promoter of the study of Arab and Greco-Roman sciences becomes pope	Gerbert of Aurillac	3%