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50 Cards in this Set
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the land of the north men
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normandy
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cousin to Edward the Confessor
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Duke William of Normandy
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England; September 1066; Duke William defeated Harold
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Battle of Hastings
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estates
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fiefdoms
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loyalty of French-speaking barons who ruled the estates was to?
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William the Conqueror
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brought the era of the Anglo-Saxons to a close
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Norman Conquest
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Followed after the Norman Conquest
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Medieval Period
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non-Latin literature produced in England between 1066 and roughly 1260 that was written in Norman French
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Anglo-Norman literature
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songs
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lais
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system of political organization that William the Conqueror brought to England
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feudalism
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members of the nobility who were granted large tracts of land
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barons
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class of bondsmen who lived on and worked the nobles' land
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peasants
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class that included many merchants, traders, laborers, and artisans
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freemen
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system of loyalties
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vassalage
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servant
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vassal
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squat, towered, and turreted church style
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Romanesque
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grand style of the Canterbury Cathedral
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Gothic
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memento mori
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reminder of death
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contemptu mundi
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contempt for the world
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holy wars
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Crusades
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journeys to holy sites
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pilgrimages
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greatest work of the Medieval Period
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The Canterbury Tales
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the site of the killing
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martyrdom
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includes knightly romances, pious romances, pious moral tales, folk tales, and ribald stories
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fabliaux
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style of literature developed by the Crusades and devotion to the Virgin Mary
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romance
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standards of knightly conduct
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chivalry
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test
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trial
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a journey to some far-off place to do some mighty deed
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quest
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the cup from which Christ offered communion at the Last Supper
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Holy Grail
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the code of behavior between women and their suitors
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courtly love
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french-born queen of Henry II, who spread the ideas of courtly love to England in the twelfth century
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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included Sir Gawain, Sir Lancelot, and Sir Galahad
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knights of the Round Table
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songs of the common people that survived for hundreds of years
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ballads
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immortalized legendary outlaw
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Robin Hood
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told stories from the Bible
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mystery plays
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told stories from the lives of the saints
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miracle plays
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represented abstract virtues and vices as characters
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morality plays
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legal system of England and the United States
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common law
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representative ruling body
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Parliament
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document that limited the rights of the king, made him subject to the rulings of the baronial Parliament, and guaranteed trial by a jury of one's peers
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Magna Carta
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war that England fought from 1339 to 1453 over possession of French lands
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Hundred Years' War
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victory that England won by introducing the longbow to warfare
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Battle of Crecy
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warrior who allowed France to win back its territory
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Joan of Arc
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the first stirrings of demands for individual liberty and human rights on the part of the common people led by Jack Straw and Wat Tyler
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Peasants' Revolt
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trained apprentices and regulated business
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guilds
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class of free merchants and tradespeople that emerged
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middle class
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bubonic plague
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Black Death
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religious reformer who finished the first complete translation of the Bible into English
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John Wycliff
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introduced to England the new technology of printing from movable type
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William Caxton
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thirty-year struggle that ended with the defeat of Richard III of the House of Lancaster by Henry Tudor, who became King Henry VII
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War of the Roses
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