Chapter 13 Flashcards
The religious teachers, judges, and priests of the Celtic people were called
Druids
The earliest inhabitants of England were the
Celts
The infamous stone structure is called
Stonehenge
English traveling poets
Scops
The greatest Saxon poem is
Beowulf
The missionary that brought Catholicism to England
Augustine
In what year did Augustine bring Catholicism to England?
664
Who was this first Archbishop of Canterbury?
Augustine
Glue most influential church office in England
Archbishop
Who originated the ideas of AD/BC
The Venerable Bede
The Vikings that took over most of England in the mid-800
The Danes
The only place the Danes did not conquer was
Wessex
England’s first great King
Alfred the GREAT
Alfred the Great kept a running record of Current events called
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Who took control of England after Alfred’s death?
Canute the Dane
King John’s successor was
Henry the third
Who overthrew Henry III
Simon de Montfort
Who initiated the first official meeting of parliament
Simon de Montfort
In what year was the first meeting of parliament held
1265
Who is Simon de Montfort successor
Edward I
Who set up the model parliament
King Edward I
Who is the first king of the modern French nation
Hugh Capet
In what year was Hugh Capet made king
987
Hugh Capet started what line of Kings
The Capetian line of Kings
What tiny part of France did Hugh Capet actually control
Ile-de-France
Where was Hugh Capet’s capital
Paris
During who’s ringing where the Capetians ready to challenge the Noble’s power
Louis VI
Which king was known as Philip Augustus
Philip II
Philip II meant on which Crusade
The third Crusade/the king’s Crusade
Who was the hoinstophin king that went on the Kings Crusade
King Frederick Barbarosa
Which of the three Kings on the Kings Crusade fell in a river and drowned
King Frederick Barbarosa
Phillips II’s grandson was named
Louis IX
What was Louis IX’s nickname
St. Louis
At the end of his reign was France the most powerful country in Europe
Louis IX
What was Philip IV nickname
Philip the fair
In what year did the moors invade Spain
711
In what year were the moors driven out of Spain
1492
Spanish national hero
El Sid
The first king of portuga
Alfonso Henriques
Who sailed around the cape of good hope
Bartolomeu Dias
Who was the first person to sail to the Far East by sea
Vasco de Gama
On what day did Columbus land in the new world
October 12, 1492
On what island did Columbus land
San Salvador
Columbus was the governor of what colony
Santo Domingo
The first Indians Columbus came in contact with were the
Arawaks
What Group of Indians built the first great empire in the Western Hemisphere
The Mayas
The most important Indian civilization in South America were
The Incas
Most powerful native American Empire at the beginning at the age of exploration along to the
Aztecs
What Spanish explore made the first Spanish landing on the North American mainland
Ponce de León
Who discovered the Pacific ocean
Vasco de Balboa
In what year did Ferdinand Magellan embark on his three-year voyage around the world
1519
Who embarked on the first voyage around the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Who is the Spanish explorer who conquered Mexico
Hernando Cortes
What famous Indian tribe did Hernando Cortes conquer
The Aztecs
Who conquered the Incas of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
Who explored the southwestern United States and discovered the Grand Canyon
Francisco Coronado
Who explore the southeastern United States and discovered the Mississippi River
Hernando De Soto
Who explored the coast of California
Juan Cabrillo
In what year was the line of demarcation established
1493
What divided the world between Portuguese land and Spanish land
The line of demarcation
Who discovered Brazil
Pedro Cabral
Who explored the eastern coast of North America for Italy
Giovanni de Verrazano
Who discovered the St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
In what year did John Cabot explore the eastern coast of North America
1497
Who is the first modern explorer to reach the North American mainland
John Cabot
