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Little ice age |
Period of cooler weather in Europe begin in around the start of the 14th century |
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Black death |
Epidemic of bubonic plague that killed one-third to one-half of the people of Europe between 1347 and 1351 |
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Giovanni |
Influential florentine author of The Decameron and other literary works |
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Confraternities |
Associations dedicated to the public performance of acts of charity and penance during the plague |
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Flagellants |
Groups who ritually whipped themselves in public to atone for the sins of humanity during the plague |
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Scapegoats |
Any group that innocently bears the blame of others |
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Cog |
Sailing cargo ship with a rounded hull |
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Hanseatic league |
Association of North German merchants formed to protect their trading interests |
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Robert Bruce |
King Robert l of Scotland, who successfully resisted English attempts to impose lordship over his kingdom |
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Edward lll |
King of England whose claim to the throne of France was largely responsible for the hundred years' war |
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Guyenne |
Region in southwest France, originally a art of aquitaine, under English rule from the 12th to the mid 15th century |
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Hundred years' war |
The long conflict between the kings of England and France |
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Crecy |
Battle in 1346 between English and French armies in which the English gained advantage with the longbow and France lost mocha of its nobility |
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Longbow |
Bow 6 ft high that had been used by the Welsh to resist the English and then adopted by the English army, where it proved decisive in Edward lll's battle in France |
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Poitiers |
Battle in 1356 that marked the second defeat of French army by the English, during which the French king was captured and held in england for ransom |
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Dauphin |
Title of the eldest son of the king of France, usually the heir to the throne |
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Conscription |
Military draft; involuntary recruitment of soldiers from among the people |
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Chivalry |
Code of military and courtly conduct among the nobility that valued mercy in battle, Christian duty, and defense of women |
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Chevauchees |
Mounted warriors whose purpose was to destroy crops and terrorize the people of the countryside |
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Henry V |
King of England who revived the hundred years' war |
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Agincourt |
Battle in 1415 in northern France in which the army of Henry V defeated the army of Charles VI of France |
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Joan of Arc |
Peasant girl who lead french troops to victory over the English at Orleans in 1429; later captured by English and burned at the stake as a witch |
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Jacquerie |
Peasant revolt of 1358 in northern France directed mainly at the nobility |
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Ciompi Revolt |
Revolt in Florence in 1378 investigated by wool carders |
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Piazza |
Public square in an Italian city |
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Head tax |
Fixed tax all residents of a locality are expected to pay |
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Peasants revolt |
An uprising in the summer of 1381 of commoners from mainly southeast England seeking greater political liberty that was quickly suppressed by King Richard ll's forces |
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Militia |
An armed group of people from one town or region whose self-appointed or assigned purpose was to protect their locality |
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Wat Tyler |
Leader of the English peasants' revolt |