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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which Frankish leader defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 732?

Answer

Charles Martel

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which incendiary weapon did the Byzantine Empire use against enemy ships?

Answer

Greek fire

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII in 1076?

Answer

Henry IV

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

In what year was the Gutenberg Bible completed?

Answer

1455

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which Byzantine emperor issued the Corpus Juris Civilis?

Answer

Justinian I

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which religious order was founded by St. Dominic in 1216?

Answer

Dominican Order

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

What is the name of the 1066 battle where William the Conqueror defeated Harold?

Answer

Battle of Hastings

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which Viking explorer founded the first Norse settlement in Greenland around 985?

Answer

Erik the Red

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which battle in 1410 was a decisive Polish-Lithuanian victory over the Teutonic Knights?

Answer

Battle of Grunwald

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which tax, levied per person, sparked the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England?

Answer

Poll tax

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which German city was the leading city of the Hanseatic League?

Answer

Lübeck

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which French peasant girl led the French army to victory at Orleans in 1429?

Answer

Joan of Arc

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