The High Middle Ages

Question 0

the Norman Conquest

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1066

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The schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches

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1054

at the Hagia Sophia

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Deus Vult

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1095

The words of Pope Urban II launching the Crusades

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The Investiture Controversy

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1076

Pope Gregory VII excommunicates HRE Henry IV.

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The Domesday Book is commissioned

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1085

By William I

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The murder of Thomas Becket

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1171

By the men of Henry II in Canterbury Cathedral.

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Crusaders sack Constantinople

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1204

Crusaders and Venetians sack Constantinople. The Latin Empire replaces the Byzantine Empire.

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Magna Carta

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1215

Question 8

The Mongols complete their conquest of Russia

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1245

Question 9

The Byzantine Empire returns to power in Constantinople

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1261

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Saint Thomas Aquinas completes his Summa Theologica

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1274

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Marco Polo returns to Italy

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1300

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Pope Boniface VIII issues the Bull Unam Sanctam

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1302
One universal Church
The Pope is above all worldly leaders

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Petrarch climbs Mount Ventroux

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1336
and reads Saint Augustine. We know much about the universe, but little about man. The beginning of Humanism and the Renaissance.

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The Black Death

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1346-50

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The beginning of the progroms in central Europe

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1347

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The completion of the Alhambra

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1350

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Wat Tyler’s Revolt

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1381

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The Battle of Agincourt

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1415

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Joan of Arc is burned at the stake

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1431

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the completion of the Cathedral of Florence

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1436

by Filippo Brunelleschi

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Gutenberg Press

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1445

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Concordat of Vienna

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1448

Pope Eugenius IV and HRE Frederick III (Hapsburg) agree that each will appoint half the bishops in the HRE.

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The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople

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1453

Sultan Mehmed II, an adherent of Sunni Islam.

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The first printed book

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1454 | The Mainz Bible.

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Columbus discovers America

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1492 | he lands in the West Indies

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The Moors are expelled from Spain

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1492

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The Carolingian Renaissance

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780

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Head of the Palatine School

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Celtic monk Alcuin; founded in 782.

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The battle memorialized in the Song of Roland

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The Battle of Roncevalles (in which the Saracens defeat the Franks).

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Medieval Venice

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Maintains its independence by defeating a Carolingian siege in 810 becomes the largest city in the middle ages -- a banking and trade center its merchants invent the commenda -- a standardized form contract

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The death of Charlemagne

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814. He is succeeded by his son, Louis the Pious

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The Treaty of Verdun

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843 Upon the death of Louis the Pious, the HRE is split between Charles the Bald (west), Louis the German (east), and Lothar (the middle, including Belgium, Switzerland, some of Italy)

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The settlement of the iconoclasm controversy

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843 leading to the golden age of the Byzantium empire, which lasts until the invasion of the Turks in 1071. During this period, the Slavs are converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, partly through the creation of the Cyrillic alphabet.

Question 34

The Vikings discover Iceland and besiege Constantinople

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860

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The Viking Great Heathen Army conquers York and much of southern England

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866. It is led by Ivar the Boneless.

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The Treaty of Mersen-in-the-Meuse

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870. Divides the Carolingian empire into two parts, with Charles the Bald receiving the west, Latin-speaking, region of Gaul, while the land east of the Rhine, which had never been conquered by Rome, went to another grandson.

Question 37

King Alfred the Great (Alfred of Wessex) defeats the Great Heathen Army

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878. In doing so, he saves England from the Norsemen.

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Alfred the Great captures London and becomes king of the Angles and Saxons.

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886

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Viking Chieftain Rollo becomes the first duke of Normandy

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912

Question 40

The Shi'ite Fatimids seize Egypt from the Abbasids

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914

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The rulers of 10th Century Spain

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The Umayyads

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The Umayyad Emir proclaims himself Caliph of Cordoba

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929. Cordoba comes to replace Baghdad as the most splendid Islamic center in the world. Its heyday is from 850 to 1009, when it suddenly collapses.

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Otto I is crowned HRE

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962. By Pope Leo VIII following Otto's defeat of the Magyars. His territory includes the eastern half of the Carolingian empire, as designated in the 870 Treaty of Mersen-in-the Meuse.

Question 44

The Fatimid Caliphate conquers Egypt

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969. The Fatimid Caliphate builds its capital at Cairo, practices Shi'ite Islam (claiming to trace its power back to Muhammed's daughter Fatima), and controls the territory from Syria, through the Levant and North Africa.

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The start of the Capetian Dynasty

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987. With the crowning of Hugh Capet. The Capetians reign until 1328.

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Approximate time of the rise of feudalism

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11th Century

Question 47

The Egyptian Fatimid Caliph orders the razing of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem

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1009. Providing a justification for the Crusades, though the church is rebuilt by his successors in 1048.