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13 Cards in this Set
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William of Normandy
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Led an army of knights in the battle of Hastings and then became king of England.
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Henry II |
Ruled England from 1154 to 1189 and strengthened the power of the monarchy.
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Common Law |
Laws that were Common to the entire kingdom.
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Thomas à Becket
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The highest ranking English cleric and the archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Henry. He claimed that only church courts could try clerics. |
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Magna Carta
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"Thee Great Charter" gave written prove that the King's relationship with the vassals were based on rights and duties.
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Parliament
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A representative government form.
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Paris |
The area from which the Capetians were from.
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Philip II Augustus |
During his rule from 1180-1223 he began to fight wars to add land the Kingdom of France .
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Estates |
The three different social classes in the Kingdom of France( clergy, nobles, and townspeople and peasants). |
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Otto I |
Crowned emperor of the Romans in 962 in return for his protection of the pope.
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Slavs |
The Slavic people who eventually divided into western, southern, and eastern slavs.
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Kiev
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Present day Kyiv ( in Ukraine).
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Alexander Nevsky |
A prince who defeated invading Germans in north west Russia. He became a grand prince and his descendants became rulers of Russia.
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