Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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768 - This son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon becomes King of the Franks | Charlemagne | 83%
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774 - The above mentionned King puts an end to this Kingdom that had been created in 568 in Italy | Lombard | 76%
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732 - This battle is fought between the Frankish forces under the mayor of the palace Charles Martel and the Ummayad army led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus | Tours | 73%
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717 - A one-year siege by the Umayyad Caliphate against this capital city begins. It will end with the Umayyads withdrawing and lead to significant changes within the Islamic world | Constantinople | 59%
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793 - This Northumbrian abbey is raided by the Vikings, which traditionally marks the beginning of the Viking Age | Lindisfarne | 51%
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731 - This Benedictine monk of the Kingdom of Northumbria writes an Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Beda Venerabilis | 50%
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756 - Abd al-Rahman, a prince of the deposed Umayyad royal family, refuses to recognize the authority of the Abbassid caliphate and becomes the independent Emir of this city | Cordoba | 50%
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750 - This Islamic caliphate assumes authority over the Muslim empire from the Umayyads. The centre of the Islamic world that was previously Damascus shifts to Baghdad | Abbassid | 42%
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751 - This Byzantine Exarchate in Italy falls to the Lombards | Ravenna | 34%
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711- The Moorish general Tariq ibn Ziyad begins the conquest of this Visigothic Christian territory | Hispania | 27%
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723 - This Byzantine emperor, who put an end to the Twenty Years' anarchy, forbids the veneration of icons | Leo III | 17%
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718 - This leading figure of the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts of the Frankish Empire leaves Wessex | Boniface | 12%
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721 - This battle sees the victory of the army led by the Duke Odo of Aquitaine over the Umayyad army led by Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani, Governor of Al-Andalus | Toulouse | 10%
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