Vocab Flashcards
(24 cards)
An ocean current found around Newfoundland, Canada
North Atlantic Drift
A religious community
Monastery
A king of Franks who spread his empire to include modern-day Germany, France, northern Spain, and most of Italy. He was also the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and brought feudalism to Europe
Charlemagne
One of Europe’s largest medieval states that last from 962 to 1806
Holy Roman Empire
Nobles governed and protected people in return for services
Feudalism
An economic and social system where lords profited off of the land peasants worked on.
Manorialism
The conflict that crowned the king of England.
The Battle of Hastings
The authority of the Pope
Papacy
A King or Queen
Monarch
A document the placed limits on king John’s power.
Magna Carta
A series of religious wars to take back the holy land from the Muslim Turks.
The Crusades
The Head of the Catholic Church who was responsible for igniting the Crusades
Pope Urban II
The Muslim general that led the Muslims to victory in the second Crusade
Saladin
A King that joined the third Crusade to defeat the Muslims but eventually signed a truce with them
Richard I
A sickness that traveled very quickly and wiped out most of Europe’s population during the 1300s
The Black Death (The Bubonic plague)
A conflict that started because the king of England declared himself ruler of France.
Hundred Year War
A peasant girl who fought in the battle against the English in New Orleans.
Joan of Arc
An English king who battled France in the hundred year war.
Henry V
The Christian effort to take back the Iberian Peninsula
Reconquista
Wife to King Ferdinand of Spain
Queen Isabella
Husband of Queen Isabella of Castille
King Ferdinand
A procedure used to combat heresy
Inquisition
Iberian Peninsula
The first French-Norman king of England
William the Conqueror
