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18 Cards in this Set
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Primogeniture |
System of inherentance that directs the majority of the entire estate from a father to his eldest son |
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Knights |
Armed supporters of nobles who lived and served in the households of their lords |
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Urban ll |
Pope who in 1095 inspired the crusading movement |
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Alexius l comnenus |
Byzantine emperor whose request for aid from the west served as the pretext for the crusades |
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Just war |
The idea and theological explanation of when it is legitimate to wage war |
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Knights hospitaller |
Monastic order of knights formed to defend Christian possessions in Syria and Palestine |
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Knights templar |
Military order founded in the 1120s in Jerusalem to defend the land the crusader forces had captured |
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Louis VII |
King of France, first husband of Eleanor of Aquitaine and leader of the failed second crusade |
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Jihad |
Religious duty imposed on Muslims to defend and extend Islam |
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Saladin |
Muslim leader, of kurdish ancestry, who defeated the crusaders at Hattin and captured Jerusalem |
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Richard l |
Son of Henry ll of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; king of England and leader of the 3rd crusade; known as Richard the lion hearted |
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Philip ll Augustus |
King of France and co-leader of the 3rd crusade |
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Acre |
Mediterranean port, today in Israel; last Christian territory in the holy land to fall to Muslims, in 1291 |
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Teutonic knights |
Order of German knights founded in Jerusalem who shifted their area of operation in 1211 to eastern Europe to convert non-Christians |
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Reconquista |
War to bring all Muslim territory in Spain under Christian rule |
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Albigensian crusade |
War wages in the first half of the 13th century against the cathar sect on southwestern France |
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Infidel |
From a Christian or Muslim perspective, anyone who is not a member of their religion |
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Parlement |
In the 14th century, the French kings court of appeals located in Paris |