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The Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name for the laws of the church | Cannon law |
| Charles the Great | Charlemagne |
| The land given to a vassal | Fief |
| Ditch around a castle/manor | Moat |
| Killed millions of people during the middle ages | Black Death/Boubonic Plague |
| Word for being thrown out of the church | Excommunication |
| Who wrote The Canterbury Tales? | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Who said that knowledge is based on observation? | Roger Bacon |
| Name for the educated bishops | Clergy |
| What year did the Battle of Hastings take place? | 1066 |
| Where do Monks live? | Monasteries |
| What was the name of the book that was like a Census? | The Domesday Book |
| What were the two houses of Parliament? | 1. House of Commons 2. House of Lords |
| Kings, Vassals, and Lesser Lords | Nobility |
| Charles the Hammer | Charles Martel |
| Who translated the the Bible at Monte Cassino (Monestary)? | St. Benedict |
| Who wrote Summa Theologica? | St. Thomas Aquinas |
| French word for middle class | Bourgeois |
| German word for middle class | Burghers |
| Romance languages that came from Latin | 1. Italian 2. French 3. Spanish |
| Who wrote the Prince? | Machiavelli |
| What year did the Bubonic Plague hit? | 1347 |
| What was the nursery rhyme written about the black death? | Ring Around the Rosie |
| What type of architecture has thick wall supports? | Roman |
| What type of architecture has tall spires and large arches as supports? | Gothic |
| 3 Important Characteristics for a Nation | 1) strong central government 2) nation has it's own culture 3) Patriotism/Nationalism |
| What country was originally made up of a tribe called the Englo Saxons? | England |
| Who dies leaving England with no direct heir? | King Edward the Confessor |
| Who wrote the Divine Comedy and The Inferno? | Dante |
| Who does England choose to become the next King after King Edward the Confessor died? | King Harold II |
| What happened at the Battle of Hastings? | William Duke of Normandy invades England seeking the throne ends up winning and killing King Harold II |
| Who controlled England during 1066? | The Normans |
| Who establishes The Domesday Book? | William the Conqueror |
| Who was the 1st Great King of England? | Henry II |
| Henry II unites all of England under _______. | Common Law |
| Who was appointed Arch Bishop of Canterbury? | Thomas A. Beckett |
| Who opposed Henry's law and was murder for it? | Thomas A. Beckett |
| Who was forced to sign the Magna Carta? | King John |
| What does the Magna Carta state? | 1) Justice for King's subjects 2) New taxes must be set up with people's consent 3) Right to trial by Jury 4) The Law is above the King 5) The king can be forced to obey the law 6) Parliament established by Edward I |
| Who fought many wars to unite all of England? | King Edward I |
| What is the Parliament? | a group of representatives of the people to the kingdom |
| Who was killed by the English for heresy and was later named a saint? | Joan de Arc |
| What 2 English families fought for the throne? | 1) House of York (white rose) 2) House of Lancaster (red rose) |
| What war established the Tudor Dynasty? | War of Roses |
| Who established the Tudor Dynasty? | Henry VII |
| Who unites England and brings it into the Renaissance? | Henry VIII |
| Who start the Protestant Reformation in England? | Henry VIII |
| Who begins the Anglican Church? | Henry VIII |
| Who was the first woman to rule England? | Mary (Bloody Mary) |
| Who brings England into the Golden Age? | Queen Elizabeth I |
| When was Hugh Capet elected King by French Nobles? | 987 AD |
| Who set up a system Royal Courts in France? | Louis IX |
| What battle was gunpowder used? | Battle at Crecy 1346 |
| Who was king of the Franks? | Clovis |
| Who saves Christianity at the battle of Tours? | Charles Martel (Charles the Hammer) |
| Messenger of the lord (spies) | Missi Dominici |
| Who establishes the Holy Roman Empire? | Charlemagne |
| What country was called the Holy Roman Empire? | Germany |
| Who split the Holy Roman Empire between his 3 sons? | Louis the Pious |
| What the Treaty of Verdun do? | Divided the Holy Roman Empire into 3 seperate ones? |
| What were the Vikings in the North called? | Norcemen |
| What is feudalism? | a fixed societal division of land among knights |
| Who was the group of people dependent upon the nobles and could not leave the land they were born on? | Serfs |
| What was built for defense not comfort? | Manors |
| Where did everyone sleep in the castle? | The Great Room |
| Who calls for the crusades? | Pope Urban II |
| What did it mean to tithe? | to pay one tenth of your yearly income to the church |
| What is heresy? | crimes against the church |
| Who led the first crusade? | Peter the Hermit |
| Who unites Spain through marriage? | Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand |
| What was the group called that began persecution of all non-christians? | Spanish Inquisition |
| Who is defeated at the Battle of Lechfeld? | the Hungarians |
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