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Medieval Europe
Question | Answer |
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A group of people from Scandinavia known as Northsmen | Vikings |
Used longboats to help raid villages on the water | Vikings |
Body of water that separated Britain and Ireland from the rest of Europe | English Channel |
Great survey book of land and taxes created by William the Conqueror. | Domesday Book |
King John I was forced to sign this document that limited the king's power | Magna Carta |
King of the Franks that became Catholic | King Clovis |
A disease that started in a trading route that killed 50 million people | Black Death |
Hatred of Jews | Anti-Semitism |
Moral system started by knights to protect those who are weak and to be brave. | Code of Chivalry |
Political system based on lords and peasants | Feudalism |
Everyday language used in a country | Venacular |
Pope Urban II asked for Christian fighters to fight the Turks | 1st Crusade |
Muslims defeat the Christians | 2nd Crusade |
Richard the Lion Heart captures Jerusalem | 3rd Crusade |
Muslims win war and Constantinople becomes a Muslim city. | 4th Crusade |
United the Anglo-Saxons and his kingdom became England | Alfred the Great |
Charles the Great who became Emperor of Rome | Charlemagne |
King of England who set up the system of grand jury | King Henry II |
Jury that decided whether you should go to trial | Grand Jury |
Jury that decided your guilt or innocence | Trial Jury |
Ruler of Normandy and descendant of the Vikings | William the Conqueror |
Battle that William the Conqueror won to become king of England | Battle of Hastings |
First Czar of Russia | Ivan III |
French peasant girl who led the French to a victory in the Hundred Years War | Joan of Arc |
How was Joan of Arc killed? | Burnt at the stake |
To declare that a person or group no longer belong to the church | Excommunication |
Belief that differs from of contradicts the accepted teachings of a religion | Heresy |
The study of religion | Theology |
An agreement between the Pope and the ruler of a country, that allowed the pope to choose bishops | Concordat of Worms |
France's first parliament | Estates General |
Court of the church who charged people with heresy | Inquisition |
War between France and England over the rightful ruler and the wool trade | Hundred Years War |