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WH Semester 2 Final Flashcards

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Feudalism

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Rich people “own” the kings land in return for military service to the king

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Middle Ages

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The time period between 500-1500

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Feudal system

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Was based on mutual obligations

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Manor

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Lords estate

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Tithes

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Church tax

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Serf

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Landless people who worked the land they lived on

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Canon law

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Church law

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Concordat of worms

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Compromise between the nobles and the church

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Simony

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Positions in the church were sold by bishops

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Richard the lion-hearted

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English king who fought against Saladin

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Inquisition

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Was a tribunal held by the church to help suppress heresy

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Reconquista

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Was an effort to drive the Muslims out of Spain

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Vernacular

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Native language

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Guild

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An association of people who worked the same job

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Magna Carta

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King John is forced to sign it, gave certain political rights

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Crusade

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Holy war on the holy land

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Holy Roman Empire

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The strongest of the three empires created after Charlemagne’s death

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Muslim

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Followers of Islam

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95 theses

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Written by Martin Luther - provoked the Protestant reform

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Great Schism

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Division in the Roman Catholic Church

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Bubonic plague

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Kills 1/3 of Europes population

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Hundred Years’ War

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A war fought between France and England in 1337 - 1453

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Joan of Arc

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A French peasant teenage girl who felt by god to rescue France from its English control

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Renaissance

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Means rebirth 1300 - 1600

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Painter, sculptor, mentor, and scientist.
Painted the ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper’

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Michelangelo

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Glorified the human body was a sculptor and a painter
Painted the Sistine chapel and sculpted the Statue of David

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Reformation

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A movement for religious reform

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Henry the VIII

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British king who created the Church of England so he could divorce his wife.

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Elizabeth I

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1558 - 1603
Restored the Protestant church to England

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What was enlightenment?

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New ideas about power and government spread through Europe (people became more aware)

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Nationalism

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Strong feelings and loyalty to one’s country

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Divine right

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The right given to Kings/ Queens by God to rule

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Charles the second

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King of Great Britain and Ireland
1660 - 1685

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Absolute Monarch

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Where one specific person holds ALL the power

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James 1

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Cemented the Church of England as Englands official religion

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English common law

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A court trial with a jury (wasn’t always very fair)

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Siege of Orleans

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Won by Joan of Arc, turning point in the 100 years war.

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Karl Marx

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German philosopher
Cowrote the Communist Manifesto

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Imperialism

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Extending power/ land through military power and wars

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English bill of rights

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Limit the power of the monarchy, gave citizens more rights

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Reasons for WWI

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Nationalism
Imperialism
Militarism
Alliances

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Militarism

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Begin to build up armies — arms race

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The powder keg of Europe

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Crisis in the balkans, ethnic groups wanted their own country

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Zimmermann note

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Telegram sent to Mexico to get them to join the triple alliance and distract the US

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Armistice

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An agreement to stop fighting

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Woodrow Wilson

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The 28th president of the US, in office during WW1 he wrote the “Fourteen Points”

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Fourteen points

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New rules to avoid anymore world wars and revolutions

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Great Depression

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(1929 - 1941)
Is a long business slump

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Munich conference

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Was help on September 29, 1938.
It was a conference between England and Germany

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Herbert Hoover

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US president blamed for the depression

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FDR

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(Franklin Roosevelt) Next president, implemented his ‘New Deal program’.

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Mussolini

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Become the dictator of Italy, starts a fascist government

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Adolf Hitler

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Become the dictator of Germany and starts the Nazi party there

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Japan

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Multiple islands of the cost of China and Korea.
At the time they were a democracy.

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Hirohoto

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Emperor of Japan during WW1

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Hideki Tojo

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Military leader of Japan

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Haile Selassie

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Was emperors of Ethiopia during WW1

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Appeasement

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Giving in to the aggressor

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Rhineland

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France and England let Hitler have the land as long as he agrees to not take any more

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Axis powers

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An alliance between Japan, Germany, and Italy.

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Francisco Franco

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Started a fascist government in Spain

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Neville Chamberlain

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Prime minister of Great Britain and responsible for the Munich conference

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Winston Churchill

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Disagreed with Chamberlain, will later become prime minister of England.

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Nonaggression pact

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And agreement between the USSR and Germany to not fight each other

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