Chapter 8

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Common law

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A legal system based on custom and court rulings

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William the Conquerer

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Won the backing of the pope, conquered England, took a census in 1086, and helped make an efficient system of tax collection

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Jury

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Group of men sworn to speak the truth

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King John

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Excommunicated, lost battle against Phillip II, England under interdict, signed Magna Carta

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Magna Carta

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Great charter

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Due process of law

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The requirement that the government act fairly and in accordance with established rules in all that it does

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Habeas Corpus

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The principle that no person can be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime

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Parliament

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The legislature of England, and later Great Britain

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Louis IX

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A deeply religious man who persecuted heretics and persecuted Jews and led French knights in two Crusades

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Anglo-Saxons

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Invaded and settled in England

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Doomsday book

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Book of census. Listed every castle, field, and pigpen in England

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Estates General

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Body of representatives from all three estates, or classes of French society

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Holy Roman Empire

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Empire of west Central Europe from 962-1806

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Henry IV

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King of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor

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Pope Gregory VII

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Pope who excommunicated Henry IV

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Lay investiture

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Appointed of bishops by anyone who is not a member of the clergy

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Fredrick Barbarossa “Red Beard”

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Dreamed of building an empire from the Baltic to the Adriatic, fought to bring wealthy cities of northern Italy under his control

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Pope Innocent III

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Claimed supremacy

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Concordat of Worms

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The treaty declared that the church had the sole power to elect and invest bishops with spiritual authority

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St. Francis of Assisi

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Approves the rules if the Franciscan order

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A 17 year old peasant women who appeared at the court of Charles vii, te uncrowned king of France. She told him that god had sent him to save France

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Joan of arc

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Created a growing sense of national feeling in France am allowed French kings to expand their power

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100 year war

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Crusades

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A series of wars when the European Christians tried to win the control of the Holy Land from Muslims

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Holy Land

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Jerusalem and other places un Palestine where Christians believe Jesus had lived there and preached

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Pope Urban II

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Helped raise support to keep the Holy Lands

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Reconquista

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The campaign by European Christians to drive the Muslims from present-day Spain

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Made a final push against the Muslim stronghold of Granada

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Inquisition

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A church court set up to try people accused of heresy

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Saladin

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Muslim leader, retook Jerusalem

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Marco Polo

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A young Venetian who set out for China with his merchant father and uncle

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Richard the lion-hearted

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Led the Crusades

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Scholasticism

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The school of thought that used logic and reason to support Christian belief

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Thomas Aquinas

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Wrote the Summa theologica, which concluded that faith and reason to exist in harmony

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Vernacular

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Everyday language of ordinary people

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Dante Alighieri

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An Italian poet who wrote Divine Comedy

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Divine Comedy

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A poem which takes the reader on an imaginary journey into hell and purgatory, where would await forgiveness

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Gothic style

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Type of European architecture that was characterized by flying buttresses, ribbed vaulting, thin walls, and high roofs

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Flying buttresses

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A buttress slanting from a separate pier

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Gargoyles

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A grotesque carved human or animal face or figures projecting from the gutter of a building

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Vaulted ceilings

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Pointed arches called vaults form a strong skeleton on which the roof material is laid

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Notre Dame

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The largest, grandest cathedrals in Paris

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Illumination

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The artistic decoration of books and manuscripts

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Book of Kells

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A medieval manuscript made in Ireland

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Black Death

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An epidemic of the bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the 1300s

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Epidemic

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Outbreak of a rapidly spreading disease

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Inflation

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Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available

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Schism

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Permanent division in a church

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Longbow

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Six-foot-long now that could rapidly fire arrows with enough force to pierce most armour

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Heresies

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Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of a church