Year 7 Decline of Monarchy Glossary Flashcards
To review key terms
ANGLO SAXON
Descendant of the Angle and Saxon tribes settled in England
ARCHBISHOP
Leader in the English Church
ARMADA
Spanish ships sailing in formation
BARON
Powerful landowner
CIVIL WAR
War between people from the same country
CLERGY
All people employed by the Church
COURT
Where people are put on trial for a crime
CRUSADE
A holy war
DIVINE RIGHT
The idea that kings get their power from God
EARL
An important high-ranking noble
ECONOMIC
To do with money and trade
EXCOMMUNICATE
To be cut off from the Catholic Church by the Pope
FEUDAL
A ranking system based on power, land and money
FREEMEN
Peasants who were free to travel
INTERREGNUM
Period when normal government is suspended
MEDIEVAL
To do with the Middle Ages
MONARCH
A king or a queen
MP
Member of Parliament
NOBLE
A rich person with high social standing
NORMAN
Person from Normandy
PARLIAMENT
A group of people who represent the rest of the country
PEASANT
A poor person with low social standing
POPE
Head of the Catholic Church
PROTESTANT
A follower of a type of Christianity which began as a protest against the Catholic Church
PURITAN
An more extreme protestant
REBELLION
Resistance against people in charge
REFORMATION
The period in which the Protestant church was formed in Europe in the 16th Century
RESTORATION
The return of the king in 1660
ROYALIST
A supporter of the monarchy
STUART
The family which ruled England between 1603-1714
TAXATION
Money paid to a ruler or the government by the people of a country
VILLEINS
Peasants who were NOT free to travel
