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61 Cards in this Set
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The Holy Land is sacred to how many religions and what are they?
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Three
Muslin Christianty Jewish |
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Who led the French to victory at the Battle of Orleans?
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Joan of Arc
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What helped towns and trade to grow?
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The Crusades
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Who is known as the Duke of Normandy?
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William the Conqueror
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What occurred between 500-1500?
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The Middle Ages
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What kind of trades people formed guilds?
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blacksmith
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After the plague what weakened feudalism?
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workers who migrated to earn more money
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What is known as the bubonic plague?
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Black Death
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What caused cities to grow?
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Increases in populatin and trade
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Who farmed the lord's land under the manor system?
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Serf's
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What began with the collapse of the Roman Empire?
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Middle Ages
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What was the center of economic activity?
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Manor
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Under what type of government was each person loyal to people who had more money and land?
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Feudalism
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Who was crowned Holy Roman emperor?
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Charlemagne
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Who defeated the English at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
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William the Conqueror
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What was the removal of Muslims and Jews from Spain called?
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Inquisition
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Who faced the plague and Hundred Years' War?
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England and France
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What began because of war and disorder?
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Feudalism
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Who traded land and freedom for protection?
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Peasants
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Who received fiefs for their services?
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Knights
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What guaranteed a trial by jury, made the king follow the laws, and was signed in 1215?
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Magna Carta
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What was the period between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance?
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Middle Ages
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Who was the king of the Franks who conquered much of Europe and spread Christianity?
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Charlemagne
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Political and social system of the Middle Ages in Europe, in which lords gave land to vassals in exchange for service and loyalty?
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Feudalism
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What is the powerful landowner called?
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lord
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Who were people who lived and worked on the manor of a lord or vassal?
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serfs
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What is the noble's house and the villages on his land where the peasants lived called?
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manor
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What is the code of conduct of knights, focusing on bravery, honor, and respect toward women and the weak called?
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chivalry
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What was associations of people sharing a trade or craft, intended to control the quality and quantity of their production and to protect their interests called?
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guilds
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What were people in feudal society who received land and protection from lords in return for loyalty called?
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vassals
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Who were people with priestly authority in a religion called?
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clergy
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Who was the Italian philosoper who said classical philosophy and Christian theology could exist in harmony?
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Thomas Aquinas
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What was the group of people who lived according to a set of religious rules?
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religious order
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What was the series of military expeditions from Christian Europe to Palestine between the 1000s and 1200s called?
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Crusades
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Who was the military leader who united Muslims to fight the Christians in Palestine in the 1100s?
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Saladin
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What was the series of campaigns, ending in 1492, by which Christian armies drove Muslim rulers out of Spain?
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Reconquista
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What was it called when the Roman Catholic court established to find and punish those who had strayed form the Roman Catholic faith?
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Inquisition
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What was the disease that struck western Eurasia in the mid-1300s?
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bubonic plague or Black Death
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What was a series of wars between England and France that took place between 1337 and 1453 called?
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Hundred Years' War
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Who was the French peasant girl who led the French to victory over the English at Orleans in 1429?
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Joan of Arc
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What was called the weapon that could shoot arrows with enough power to penetrate a knight's armor called?
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longbow
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What was it when kings or queens had unlimited power and controlled all aspects of society?
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absolute monarchs
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What does it mean to relocate to a new region?
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migrate
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What is the arm of the Atlantic Ocean that runs between England and France and connects the Atlantic Ocean with the North Sea?
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English Channel
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What is the system of law based on court decisions and local customs called?
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common law
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Who was the king of England that signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
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King John
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What is a list of rights written by England's novility and signed by King John in 1215 called?
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Magna Carta
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What is called a group of representatives with some powers of government?
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parliament
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What is called the right of people not to be imprisoned unlawfully?
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habeas corpus
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What is the system of judges and courts of law called?
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judiciary
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What is the right to vote called?
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suffrage
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What were the changes to Europe after the fall of Rome?(list 5)
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1. Decline in the size and power of governments
2. Rduction in long-distance trade 3. Decline in learning and devotion to Greek and Roman culture 4. Disappearance of cities and rise of rural villages and farms 5. Growth of numerous Germanic kingdoms |
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How did Clovis help Christianity spread in the early Middle Ages?
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a
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Why did Pope Gregory VII excommunicate Emperor Henry IV?
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a
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What motivated the Crusaders to attack Palestine?
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Why were the Spanish and Portuguese kingdoms able to start taking back territory?
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How were European Jews treated during the plague?
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What were two causes of the Hundred Years' War?
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How did political structures change during the Middle Ages?
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How did the decisions of England's royal judges help bring equality to English law?
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How did the English Parliament become the model for future representative institutions?
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