Chapter 15 World History Study Guide

Front 1

_______________________ united the Frankish nobles and stopped the Muslim advance in Europe at the Battle of Tours.

Back 1

Charles Martel

Front 2

After __________________ converted to Catholicism, nearly all of the Franks became Catholic.

Back 2

Clovis

Front 3

The Viking people lived in villages in the ______________ of Scandinavia.

Back 3

fjords

Front 4

Charlemagne was crowned the new ____________________ by the pope.

Back 4

Roman Emperor

Front 5

The _________________________ separates Britain and Ireland from the rest of Europe.

Back 5

English Channel

Front 6

The _____________ were pushed into Ireland, Wales, and Scotland by the Angles and Saxons.

Back 6

Celts

Front 7

A _______________ was a noble who served a lord of a higher rank.

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vassal

Front 8

The _______________________________ was a code of good behavior for knights.

Back 8

code of chivalry

Front 9

________________ were peasants who were tied to the land on feudal manors.

Back 9

serfs

Front 10

Medieval cities were dirty, smelly, and _____________.

Back 10

polluted

Front 11

Under ___________________, landowning nobles governed and protected the people in return for services, such as fighting in a noble's army or farming the land.

Back 11

feudalism

Front 12

_____________________ established common law and the jury system in England.

Back 12

Henry ll

Front 13

The Christians were successful in driving the Muslims out of Jerusalem in the _______________________________.

Back 13

1st Crusade

Front 14

Edward I called for a meeting of people from different parts of England, which came to be called _____________________________.

Back 14

Parliament

Front 15

The __________________________ was an agreement that only the pope could appoint bishops and only the emperor could give them government jobs.

Back 15

Concordat of worms

Front 16

_______________________ drove the Vikings out of Britain.

Back 16

Alfred the Great

Front 17

The __________________ was a census taken in England by William the Conqueror.

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Domesday Book

Front 18

_______________________ were from Scandinavia raided villages in Europe.

Back 18

Vikings

Front 19

The Grand Duke of Moscow became known as czar, a shortened form of Caesar, when _______________ came to power.

Back 19

Ivan the Great

Front 20

________________________ signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

Back 20

King John

Front 21

The _______________________ was France's first parliament.

Back 21

estates- general

Front 22

The ___________________ limited the power of kings and recognized that citizens have certain rights.

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Magna Carta

Front 23

The Crusades were holy war launched by _______________ against the _____________________.

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Pope Urban ll, Muslim Turks

Front 24

_________________was a priest who combined church teachings with the ideas of Aristotle.

Back 24

Thomas Aquinas

Front 25

Hatred of Jewish people is called ________________________.

Back 25

Anti-Semitism

Front 26

___________________ headed a convent in Germany and composed church music.

Back 26

Hildegard of Bingen

Front 27

________________ was the founder of the first order of friars who helped the poor and served as missionaries.

Back 27

Francis of Assissi

Front 28

The __________________ was a church court that tried heretics.

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Inquisition

Front 29

The most important buildings during the 1100's were large churches called _____________________.

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cathedrals

Front 30

__________________ was a young French peasant who led soldiers in the Hundred Years' War.

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Joan of Arc

Front 31

The ___________________ was a plague that swept across Europe and Asia and killed millions of people.

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black death

Front 32

____________________ married Ferdinand of Aragon and their joined lands became the country of Spain.

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Isabella of Castile

Front 33

The Hundred Years' War was fought between _______________ and _____________ over the region of ___________________.

Back 33

English, French, Crécy

Front 34

The Black Death caused __________________ and a ________________________ in Europe.

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disease and declined the economy

Front 35

The struggle to take back the Iberian Peninsula was called the ________________.

Back 35

Reconquista