week 4 vocab ss Flashcards
or Charles the Great, a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and was crowned as the Emperor of the Romans by the Papacy in 800
Charlemagne
a battle between North African armies and Frankish forces led by Charles Martel in Gaul in 732 C.E.
Battle of Tours
the Western name of Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, the Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria who famously defeated a massive army of Crusaders in the Battle of Hattin and captured the city of Jerusalem in 1187
Saladin
a patron saint of France honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years’ War
Joan of Arc
An epidemic of plague, especially its bubonic form, that occurred in outbreaks between 1347 and 1400
Black Death
hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people
Anti-Semitism
the series of wars fought intermittently between England and France from 1337–1453
100 Year War
an empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806.
Holy Roman Empire
was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs
Clovis
the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and settled throughout parts of Europe.
Vikings
