Day 7!!!!!! Flashcards
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North Atlantic Drift
moderating the climate of western Europe
Monastery
a building or group of buildings in which monks live and worship.
Charlemagne
he made schools for his empire and was the first ruler of holy roman empire
Holy Roman Empire
complex of lands in western and central Europe ruled over first by Frankish and then by German kings
Manorialism
lord own land and let serfs live on the land and sell the crops and pay rent
Feudalism
a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return
The Battle of Hastings/William The Conqueror
October 14, 1066, King Harold II of England was defeated by the invading Norman forces of William the Conqueror
Papacy
the office or authority of the Pope
Monarch
king or queen
Magna Carta
the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.
The Crusades
a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church
Pope Urban II
Head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States
Saladin
was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family
Richard I
Christian commander during the Third Crusade, leading the campaign after the departure of Philip II of France
The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
a vuris that wiped half the populaton
The Hundred Years War
The Hundred Years’ War was a series of armed conflicts fought between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages
Joan of Arc
Joan has been revered as a martyr, and viewed as an obedient daughter of the Roman Catholic Church, an early feminist, and a symbol of freedom and independence
Henry V
King of England from 1413 until his death in 1422 he restored English .
Reconquista
southern Portuguese and Spanish territories taking their land back
Queen Isabella
Queen of Spain and León from 1474 until her death in 1504
King Ferdinand
was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband of Queen Isabella I of Castile
Inquisition
a judicial procedure and later an institution that was established by the papacy and, sometimes, by secular governments to combat heresy
Iberian Peninsula
a peninsula in South-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia
