Middle ages in western europe Flashcards

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North Atlantic Drift

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A current that provides good fishing areas around the nortwestern European coast. It creates a mild climate for Western Europeans, it makes southern europe have a meditteranean climate

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Monastery

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Where Monks live

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Charlemagne

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An emporer who expanded the Franks into an empire. He tried to make Christianity the religion of the Empire. He was declared the emporer on Christmas day. he relied on local officials to help him govern. He started Feudalism to western europe

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Holy Roman Empire

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a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor. It developed in the Early Middle Ages and lasted for almost 1,000 years until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Feudalism

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A political and social system that relies on ties of loyalty and duty among members of the nobility.

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Manorialism

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A political and social order that relied on the lands and their serfs to provide.

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The Battle of Hastings/William The Conqueror

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The battle for William the Conquerer to be the first french king of england.

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Papacy

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Monarch

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The leader of an empire

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Magna Carta

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A document that placed limits on the ruler’s power, often the king. And it gives people the right to trial of jury.

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The Crusades

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A series of religious wars initiated sometimes initiated or sometimes targeted at the catholic church.

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Pope Urban II

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Head of the Roman Catholic Church

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Richard I

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A winner of one of the battles

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Saladin

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The Islamic opponent

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The Black Death

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A plague that spread rapidly in the mid 1300s, many people died because there was nor much medicine or things that could cure it at the time as they weren’t as advanced in Pharmacology. From 40 to 60 million people died from this disease. This led to a raise in wages because there was a decrease in the amount of workers.

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The Hundred Years War

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A war that started because English monarchs ruled french lands, but french kings wanted to unite their lands with their kingdom.

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Joan of Arc

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A french peasant who felt herself guided by the voices of three saints. The church letters her take part in battle against the English at the town of Orleans. France won the battle.

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Henry V

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Joan of Arc’s opponents

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Reconquista

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A series of battle that the Spanish initiated to get the Moors (North African Muslims) out of spain territory.

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Queen Isabella

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Married king Ferdinand and united the kingdom of Portugal, castile, and Aragon into one catholic country which is now known as Spain

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King Ferdinand

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Married queen Isabella and united the king of Portugal, castile, and Aragon into one catholic country which is now known as Spain.

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Inquisition

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Iberian Peninsula

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Spaing and Portugal