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100
The Hundred Years' War led to the consolidation of this Western European kingdom.
What is France?
100
This pair murdered Julius Caesar.
Who are Brutus and Cassius?
100
William the Conqueror became William I of England in this year.
What is 1066?
100
This city is home to the famous dome built by Brunelleschi.
What is Florence?
100
1214; King John of England was defeated by the French.
What is the Battle of Bouvines?
200
The Renaissance began in this city.
What is Florence?
200
Michaelangelo painted the ceiling of this little church in Rome where the pope would worship.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
200
Muslim Ottoman invaders sacked Constantinople, continuing their push towards Europe, in this year.
What is 1453?
200
This French city has splendid palaces once inhabited by 14th Century popes.
What is Avignon?
200
23; Octavian's naval forces defeated Antony.
What is the Battle of Actium?
300
Only this can save you, Luther said.
What is faith?
300
This city was called the "second Rome".
What is Constantinople?
300
Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Cathedral Church in Wittenberg in this year.
What is 1517?
300
This city was home to Jean Calvin for many years of his exile from France.
What is Geneva?
300
1066; William the Conqueror defeats Harold Godwyn.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
400
This was the last year of the Middle Ages.
What is fourteen fifty-three?
400
The Bishop of Rome, or pope, consolidated control over the European clergy by declaring he alone could appoint bishops, and by this practice designed to (1) enhance the prestige of priests and (2) prohibit the inheritance of Church property by families.
What is clerical celibacy?
400
English nobles forced King John to sign the Magna Carta after the Battle of the Bouvines, but more than a century before the Hundred Years' War, in this year.
What is 1215?
400
This city is where Charles V summoned Luther to account for his heretical opinions soon after the Protestant Reformation began.
What is Worms?
400
732; Charles Martel defends Europe from Muslim invaders.
What is Tours?
500
Because of the Antonine plague, barbarian invasions, and hyperinflation, towns and trade declined, and this economic system became prevalent in Europe.
What is feudalism?
500
In the Second Triumvirate, which also included Octavian and Lepidus, he was most popular in Rome.
Who is Mark Antony?
500
The Hundred Years' War began as a dispute over the French throne in this year.
What is 1337?
500
The Christian religion, orthodox and Catholic, was designed in this Istanbul suburb.
What is Nicaea?
500
1429-1430; Jean d'Arc successfully besieges this French city held by the English, changing the course of the Hundred Years' War.
What is the siege of Orleans?
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