Volume 2: The Middle Ages b

Question 1

The Battle of Hastings

Answer 1

1066

Question 2

Al-Bakri publishes his Book of the Roads and Kingdoms

Answer 2

1068

Question 3

El Cid captures Valencia

Answer 3

1094

Question 4

The pope calls for the First Crusade

Answer 4

1095

Question 5

The First Crusade begins

Answer 5

1096

Question 6

Jerusalem captured by the crusaders

Answer 6

1099

Question 7

Saracens take Edessa

Answer 7

1144

Question 8

Genghis Khan born

Answer 8

1167

Question 9

Saladin retakes Jerusalem

Answer 9

1187

Question 10

Richard the Lionhearted comes to the English throne

Answer 10

1189

Question 11

Richard the Lionhearted dies

Answer 11

1199

Question 12

King John signs the Magna Charta at Runnymede

Answer 12

1215

Question 13

Genghis Khan conquers Beiking

Answer 13

1215

Question 14

Genghis Khan dies

Answer 14

1227

Question 15

The Ottoman Turks settle in Asia Minor

Answer 15

1250

Question 16

Marco Polo begins his journey to china

Answer 16

1271

Question 17

Kublai Khan’s first invasion of Japan

Answer 17

1274

Question 18

Kublai Khan becomes emperor of China

Answer 18

1279

Question 19

Kublai Khan’s second invasion of Japan

Answer 19

1281

Question 20

The Jews are expelled from England

Answer 20

1290

Question 21

Kublai Khan dies

Answer 21

1294

Question 22

Marco Polo returns home

Answer 22

1295

Question 23

The Ottoman Turks settle at the edge of the Byzantine empire

Answer 23

1300

Question 24

The Jews are expelled from France

Answer 24

1306

Question 25

The plague begins in the east

Answer 25

1320

Question 26

Mansa Musa of Mali begins his pilgrimage

Answer 26

1324

Question 27

Tenochtitlan is built in central America

Answer 27

1325

Question 28

The plague comes to Europe

Answer 28

1347

Question 29

The end of the plague’s active phase

Answer 29

1351

Question 30

Ibn Battuta visits Mali

Answer 30

1352

Question 31

the Yuan dynasty in China, founded by Kublai Khanm, ends

Answer 31

1368

Question 32

Henry V becomes king of England

Answer 32

1413

Question 33

The Battle of Agincourt

Answer 33

1415

Question 34

Henry the Navigator begins to sponsor exploration

Answer 34

1419

Question 35

Yongle begins to build the Forbidden City in China

Answer 35

1421

Question 36

Henry V dies

Answer 36

1422

Question 37

Henry VI becomes king of England

Answer 37

1422

Question 38

Joan of Arc meets the Dauphin

Answer 38

1429

Question 39

Joan of Arc is burned at the stake

Answer 39

1431

Question 40

Gil Eannes sails down the coast of West Africa

Answer 40

1434

Question 41

Mehmed the Conqueror becomes sultan

Answer 41

1444

Question 42

The Ottoman Turks conquer Constantinople on May 29

Answer 42

1453

Question 43

Gutenberg prints the Bible on his printing press

Answer 43

1453

Question 44

Edward IV becomes king of England

Answer 44

1461

Question 45

Ivan the Great becomes ruler of Russia

Answer 45

1462

Question 46

Henry the Navigator dies

Answer 46

1464

Question 47

Ferdinand and Isabella marry

Answer 47

1469

Question 48

The Songhay empire begins to expand under Sunni Ali

Answer 48

1470

Question 49

Ferdinand comes to the throne of Aragon

Answer 49

1479

Question 50

Richard III becomes king of England

Answer 50

1483

Question 51

Henry VII becomes king of England

Answer 51

1485

Question 52

Battle of Bosworth Field

Answer 52

1485