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High Middle Ages: Monarchies And The Church Flashcards

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What were the line of kings that came after the Carolingian Empire?

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Capetian Kings

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Who was the FIRST Capetian King?

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Hugh Capet, the Count of Paris

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Who was the first STRONG Capetian King?

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Louis VI ( Louis the Fat
-gained control over  lle de France, area around Paris, and established it as center of royal law
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Who was Philip II?

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  • Philip Augustus
  • grandson of Louis VI
  • founded University of Paris
  • 1200, began construction of the Louvre, palace of French Kings
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Who was Louis IX?

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  • St. Louis
  • famous for judicial reforms that gave equal justice to rich and poor
  • led 7th and 8th Crusades
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When did the Capetian dynasty end?

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1328

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What caused the Hundred Years war?

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  • After the end of Capetians
  • House of Valois and Philip VI were like ‘that throne is mine!’
  • But then Edward III of England was like ‘ohohoho no big boy’
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Who fought in the Hundred Years War?

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France and England

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Who was Joan of Arc?

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  • young girl
  • led an army in Orleans to insure the coronation of Charles VII
  • burned at stake
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Who won the Hundred Years War?

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France in 1453

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Who was Canute (Cnut)?

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  • Danish King who had a peaceful rule from 1016 to 1035

- But his sons were big bad

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What was the Battle of Hastings?

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  • 1066
  • Harold was king of England, but William was like ‘wait that’s illegal’ and successfully invaded England to kick his arse out of the throne
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Who was William?

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  • Duke of Normandy
  • 1066 to 1087
  • brought feudal system to England
  • used Anglo-saxon legal and military systems
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Who were the Plantagenets?

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Kings that came after Capetians and William

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Who was Henry II?

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  • first Plantagenet King

- called one of England’s greatest kings because of judicial reforms

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16
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English common law became the basis what?

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most of US law and legal procedures

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Why did Henry II have difficulty with the church?

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  • attempted to put clergy under common law

- legal reforms interfered with church court system

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Who was Richard the Lionhearted?

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spent many years fighting in The Hundred Years war and little affect as king or England

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Who was John?

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evil brother of Richard the Lionhearted

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What was John forced to sign?

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  • 1215

- Magna Carta

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What is the Magna Carta?

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document which protected feudal rights and that the king was under the law

22
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Who were the Plantagenet kings following John responsible for?

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formation of English Parliament

23
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Who was the first king to use Parliament effectively?

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Edward I

24
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Who made up the House of Commons and House of Lords?

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C- knights and burgesses

L-nobles

25
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Who were the last three Plantagenet kings?

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  • Edward II
  • Edward III
  • Richard II (only 10 when he took the throne)
26
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What led to Richard II being unpopular?

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  • costs of war
  • Peasants Revolt of 1381
  • seizure of John Gaunt’s lands
27
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Who was Henry of Bolingbroke?

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Henry IV, and first king of the House of Lancaster

28
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What caused the Wars of the Roses?

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Henry VI’s (son of Henry V) weak reign

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What was the Wars of the Roses?

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  • 30 years war
  • 1455-1485
  • between House of Lancaster (Red Rose) and House of York (White Rose)
30
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How did the Wars of Roses end?

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Henry Tudor (Lancaster side) defeated Richard III in the battle of Bosworth Field

31
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Who was Henry Tudor?

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  • became Henry VII

- began reign of Tudor Kings

32
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After the last Carolingian king of east Frankland died, into how many parts was Germany split?

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four duchies

33
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Who was Otto the Great?

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first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

34
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Who was Fredrick Barbarossa?

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  • redbeard

- first of the Hohenstaufen dynasty

35
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What was the significance of the Umayyad Kingdom of Cordoba?

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  • center of culture and power in Spain from 8th to 11th century
  • 10th century, intellectual center of Europe
36
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What was the Reconquista?

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Christian reconquest of Spain from the Muslims

37
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Who was El Cid?

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  • Rodrigo Diaz

- hero of Spanish conquest

38
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What were the seven sacraments that the Roman Catholics believed in?

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Baptism
Confirmation
Penance
Holy Eucharist (Lord's Supper)
Matrimony (marriage)
Holy Orders
Extreme Unction

BC PHe MaHE

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What was the Truce of God?

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document that did not allow fighting on religious seasons and certain days of the week

40
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What was Cluny?

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A reformed monastery that had monks that rejected the feudal system

41
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What was the mendicant orders?

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members of monastic orders took vows of poverty and could not own property

42
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Who was Francis of Assisi and Dominic?

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both begun mendicant orders
F- Franciscans
D-Dominicans

43
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Who was Pope Innocent III?

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Gained political victories over Philip of France and King John of England

44
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What was the Avignon Captivity?

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French popes that ruled Avignon

45
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What was the Great Schism?

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Era when the church was ruled by two rival popes

46
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Who wrote Summa Theologica?

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St. Thomas Aquinas

47
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What was Scholasticisam?

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  • religious philosophy

- applied Aristotle’s teachings to church

48
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What were the Crusades?

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Eight Catholic Crusades to remove Muslim’s from the Holy Land

49
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What were the chivalric and monastic orders of knights that the Crusades were responsible for?

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  • Knights Templars
  • Teutonic Knights
  • Knights Hospitalers
50
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What was the People’s Crusade?

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  • First Crusade in 1096
  • Jews were killed
  • Led by Peter the Hermit
51
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What was the Children’s Crusade?

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  • disaster

- families lost children

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