Middle Ages in Western Europe

Question 1

North Atlantic Drift

Question 2

Monastery

Answer 2

a religious community

Question 3

Holy Roman Empire

Answer 3

Polity in Central and Western Europe

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Feudalism

Answer 4

a system of land ownership and duties

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Manorialism

Answer 5

Political, economic, and social system

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The Battle of Hastings/William The Conqueror

Answer 6

a decisive Norman victory over the Anglo-Saxon forces of England

Question 7

Papacy

Answer 7

Papacy refers to the office and jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome, the pope, who presides over the central government of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 8

Monarch

Answer 8

Head of state of a monarchy

Question 9

Magna Carta

Answer 9

First written constitution in European history

Question 10

The Crusades

Answer 10

a series of religious wars organized by the Christian Latin Church and Western Christians to retake the Holy Land and other formerly Christian territories from Muslim control

Question 11

Pope Urban II

Answer 11

Head of the Roman Catholic Church

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Saladin

Answer 12

Muslim sultan of Egypt and Syria

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Richard I

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was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199

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The Black Death (Bubonic Plague)

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A disease that killed many Europeans

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The Hundred Years War

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a war that lasted 100 years

Question 16

Henry V

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a king of England (1413–22) of the house of Lancaster

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Joan of Arc

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a French peasant girl who led the French army to victory over the English during the Hundred Years’ War

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Reconquista

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the christens drove out the Muslims in a struggle

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Queen Isabella

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was Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504 She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death

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King Ferdinand

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King of Romania

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Inquisition

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a judicial procedure and institution established by the Catholic Church to combat heresy

Question 22

Iberian Peninsula

Answer 22

Peninsula in South-western Europe