UNIT ONE

Question 1

THE BLACK DEATH: When? Preconditions?

Answer 1

1347-51; Europe was over populated.

Question 2

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE BLACK DEATH: What event limited the wages of peasants to pre-plague levels in England and what year was it?

Answer 2

Statue of Laborers 1351

Question 3

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE BLACK DEATH: What was the death toll?

Answer 3

25 million

Question 4

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE BLACK DEATH: What class suffered the most and why?

Answer 4

Nobility; they had no more peasant workers.

Question 5

SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE BLACK DEATH: Effect on urbanization?

Answer 5

Increased because people were looking for jobs.

Question 6

TRADITIONAL CONTAINERS OF MONARCHY: Who? What did they have in common? 100 Years War effect on their power?

Answer 6

Nobles and Clergy;
Powerful;
The Monarchs broke free.

Question 7

THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR: What and When? Reasons for Englands early victories? Strengths and weaknesses of France early in the war?

Answer 7

1337-1453
They were a united people
Lots of riches and big army but the people were not very united

Question 8

What would have put France and Britain under the same monarchy if successful and what war and year was it in.

Answer 8

Treaty of Troyes
The Hundred Years War
1420

Question 9

THE HUNDRED YEARS WAR: Names of what battles: British won so now the fight would be on France land; England won and captured the French king, John II; Joan led France to victory; England won and killed 10k of French and only 500 British died

Answer 9

Battle of Sluys
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Orleans
Battle of Agincourt

Question 10

Social and political consequences of the hundred years war:

Answer 10

Increased the importance of the Estates General;
Peasants now had to pay more taxes;
The Jacquerie (peasant revolts)
France now had a centralized government;
England lost land with recourses