WH chapter 13 Flashcards
earliest known inhabitants of the British Isles
Celts
a special group of Celtic men who acted as teachers, judges, and priests
Druids
Germanic tribes that invaded the Celts
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
wandering poets who write long poems about war heroes
scops
a missionary appointed by Pope Gregory I
Augustine
First Archbishop of Canterbury
Augustine
a group of Vikings who controlled most of England by 870
Danes
first great English king
Alfred the Great (Saxon)
became king of England in 1016
Canute the Dane
people who fought the Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy who won) and Harold Godwin (the most powerful noble)
line of kings named for Henry II
Plantagenet Kings (he wore a flower)
laws common to all men based on case-by-case study
common law (Plantagenet)
group of people called to give a verdict in regard to legal matter
trial by jury (Plantagenet)
Henry II’s son who spent only 6 months in England
Richard the Lionhearted (Plantagenet)
Richard the Lionhearted’s mother who ran the kingdom
Eleanor of Aquitaine
most hated king in English history
John
one for the most important documents in the history of the world
Magna Carta
_____ clearly defined the ancient rights and privileges of the people
Magna Carta (Great Charter)
written plan that set up a form of government and establishes its basic government principles
constitution
John’s son who was a weak king of England
Henry III
____ led a rebellion of nobles and called the first meeting of Parliament
Simon de Montfort
first pure Englishman since the Norman conquest
Edward I (“Longshanks”)
_____ established Model Parliament
Edward I (Plantagenet)
war fought between England and France for several years
Hundred Years’ War
peasant girl who led the French army to a few victories before she was captured
Joan of Arc
______ won the Hundred Years’ War
France (England lost all their land in France except the port of Calais)
the last Plantagenet king who lost the throne and “played tyrant”
Richard II
started the dynasty of Lancaster
Henry IV
Lancasterian king who went insane
Henry VI
Duke of York who became king
Edward IV
the War of Roses was fought between _____
the House of Lancaster and the House of York
first Tudor king of England who united the Yorks and Lancasters in marriage
Henry VII (won the War of Roses at the Battle of Bosworth Field)
_______ marks the beginning of the modern nation of France
the Capetian line of kings that began with Hugh Capet
Capetian king who challenged the nobles’ power
Louis VI
____ made the French monarchy stronger than any other single noble
Philip Augustus (II)
became one of France’s most memorable kings
Louis IX
made France the most powerful country in Europe
Louis IX
reigned as a French king during the climax of quarrel with the papacy (Pope Boniface VIII)
Philip IV
French version of Parliament
Estates-General
Spain is located on the _______
Iberian Peninsula
large prosperous city founded by the Phoenicians on the Iberian Peninsula
Cadiz
Roman name for Spain
Hispania
Muslim Moors invaded Spain in ___
711
great center of Moorish culture and Spain’s capital at the time
Cordova
famous alcazar in Granada
Alhambra
Spanish crusade to take back Spain from the Moors (11th Century)
Reconquista
kingdom of Spain that became the most powerful and led the other kingdoms in conquering the northern half of Spain
Castile
Spanish national hero who recaptured Valencia
El Cid
_____ united the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile
Ferdinand and Isabella