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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

In what year did the Fall of Constantinople occur?

Answer

1453

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

What architectural style is characterized by pointed arches and flying buttresses?

Answer

Gothic

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which city was the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire?

Answer

Constantinople

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

What was the primary language of scholarship and the Church in medieval Western Europe?

Answer

Latin

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Which English king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?

Answer

King John

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

What system of land ownership and loyalty defined medieval European society?

Answer

Feudalism

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

What plague killed an estimated one-third of Europe's population in the 14th century?

Answer

Black Death

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Middle Ages

Who was crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day 800?

Answer

Charlemagne

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Thirty Years War

Which fortress held out against Wallenstein's siege in 1628, preventing him from controlling the Baltic?

Answer

Stralsund

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Thirty Years War

Which 1620 battle decisively defeated the Bohemian rebels?

Answer

Battle of White Mountain

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Thirty Years War

Which Swedish general led the assault on Prague in 1648?

Answer

Hans Christoff von Königsmarck

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• The Thirty Years War

Approximately how many people died in the Thirty Years' War?

Answer

8 million

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