Statistics for Middle Ages True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Several Italian cities, including Venice and Genoa, were republics for centuries	True	84%
Notre dame de Paris was erected during the Middle Ages	True	82%
Avignon in Southern France served as the seat of several Popes	True	81%
Richard Lionheart led a Crusade	True	78%
In the year 1300, fewer than 100 000 people lived in all of Europe	False	74%
Charlemagne ruled over a small territory around the city of Paris	False	72%
Antiquity ended when the Mongols sacked Rome and overthrew the Emperor	False	72%
The word "Dark Ages" refers to the decades following the Black Death epidemic (1347-).	False	71%
The Hanseatic league was a Northern European trade confederation	True	71%
Windmills were invented during the Middle Ages	True	64%
Constantinople was held by Muslims throughout most of the Middle Ages.	False	61%
Before Columbus' voyage across the Atlantic, scholarly consensus held that the Earth was flat	False	52%
Throughout the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church regularly staged elaborate witch-hunts, which only stopped after the rise of Protestantism	False	43%
Much of Germany was christianized by missionaries from the British Isles	True	32%