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19 Cards in this Set
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Great Famine
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Years 1315-1322. Almost all of norther Europe suffered from this. Poor harvests.
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Black Death
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Terrible Plague
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Buba
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Symptom of the plague
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Flagellants
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Extremists who whipped and scourged themselves as penance for their and society's sins.
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Crecy
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Place in northern France where English longbow men scored a great victory over French crossbow men.
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Agincourt
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King Henry V gained the field of vastly superior numbers there.
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Joan of Arc
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Ultimate French success rests on her.
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Representative Assemblies
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Flourished between 1250 and 1450 in many countries.
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Nationalism
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Feeling of unity and identity that binds together a people.
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Babylonian Captivity
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The seventy years the ancient Hebrews were held captive in Mesopotamian Babylon.
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Schism
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Another word for division.
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Conciliartists
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Believed that reform of the church could best be achieved through periodic assemblies, or general councils, representing all the Christian people.
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Merchet
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Fine to the lord for a woman's marriage.
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Banns
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Public announcements that the couple planned to marry, to allow for objections to the union.
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Peasant Revolts
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Flemish peasants who began to revolt in 1323 in protest of officials demands for taxes and the misappropriation of the money collected.
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Jacquerie
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Massive uprising dealing with the frustrations of French peasantry.
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Racism
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Characterized attitude of colonists towards native people.
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Dalimil Chronicle
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A survey of Bohemian history pervaded with Czech hostility toward Germans.
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Statue of Kilkenny
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Embodied here is an extensive attempt to prevent intermarriage and protect racial purity.
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