Statistics for The History of Medieval Europe - 12th century

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
1163 - Pope Alexander III lays the foundation stone of this French Gothic cathedral	Notre-Dame	76%
1154 - This King of England founds the Plantagenet dynasty	Henry II	69%
1187 - Jerusalem is conquered by this sultan which leads to the Third Crusade	Saladin	66%
1170 - This English archbishop is murdered in Canterbury Cathedral	Thomas Becket	66%
1190 - This Holy Roman Emperor dies after falling in the Saleph River in Cilician Armenia	Frederick Barbarossa	50%
1143 - This future "Queen of the Hanseatic League" begins as a humble settlement	Lübeck	29%
1122 - This concordat puts an end to the Investiture controversy	Worms	20%
1180 - This mighty King of France begins his reign	Philip Augustus	18%
1144 - The siege of this city was the catalyst for the Second Crusade	Edessa	17%
1115 - This famous Cistercian abbey is founded by St. Bernard in France	Clairvaux	16%
1170 - This Jewish philosopher begins writing his "Mishneh Torah"	Maimonides	13%
1119 - This very influential Catholic military order is founded at the Concile of Troyes	Order of the Temple	11%
1126 - This philosoph is born who defended the pursuit of philosophy against Al-Ghazali	Averroes	10%
1176 - The Holy Roman Emperor is vainquished by the Italian Lombard League at this battle	Legnano	7%
ca. 1150 - This Bolognese jurist finishes the Concordia discordantium canonum	Gratian	2%
1194 - This religious order for the ransom of Christians held captive by non-Christians	Trinitarian	0%