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35 Cards in this Set
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_______________________ united the Frankish nobles and stopped the Muslim advance in Europe at the Battle of Tours.
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Charles Martel
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After __________________ converted to Catholicism, nearly all of the Franks became Catholic.
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Clovis
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The Viking people lived in villages in the ______________ of Scandinavia.
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fjords
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Charlemagne was crowned the new ____________________ by the pope.
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Roman Emperor
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The _________________________ separates Britain and Ireland from the rest of Europe.
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English Channel
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The _____________ were pushed into Ireland, Wales, and Scotland by the Angles and Saxons.
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Celts
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A _______________ was a noble who served a lord of a higher rank.
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vassal
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The _______________________________ was a code of good behavior for knights.
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code of chivalry
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________________ were peasants who were tied to the land on feudal manors.
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serfs
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Medieval cities were dirty, smelly, and _____________.
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polluted
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Under ___________________, landowning nobles governed and protected the people in return for services, such as fighting in a noble's army or farming the land.
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feudalism
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_____________________ established common law and the jury system in England.
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Henry ll
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The Christians were successful in driving the Muslims out of Jerusalem in the _______________________________.
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1st Crusade
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Edward I called for a meeting of people from different parts of England, which came to be called _____________________________.
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Parliament
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The __________________________ was an agreement that only the pope could appoint bishops and only the emperor could give them government jobs.
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Concordat of worms
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_______________________ drove the Vikings out of Britain.
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Alfred the Great
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The __________________ was a census taken in England by William the Conqueror.
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Domesday Book
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_______________________ were from Scandinavia raided villages in Europe.
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Vikings
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The Grand Duke of Moscow became known as czar, a shortened form of Caesar, when _______________ came to power.
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Ivan the Great
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________________________ signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
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King John
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The _______________________ was France's first parliament.
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estates- general
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The ___________________ limited the power of kings and recognized that citizens have certain rights.
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Magna Carta
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The Crusades were holy war launched by _______________ against the _____________________.
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Pope Urban ll, Muslim Turks
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_________________was a priest who combined church teachings with the ideas of Aristotle.
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Thomas Aquinas
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Hatred of Jewish people is called ________________________.
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Anti-Semitism
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___________________ headed a convent in Germany and composed church music.
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Hildegard of Bingen
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________________ was the founder of the first order of friars who helped the poor and served as missionaries.
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Francis of Assissi
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The __________________ was a church court that tried heretics.
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Inquisition
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The most important buildings during the 1100's were large churches called _____________________.
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cathedrals
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__________________ was a young French peasant who led soldiers in the Hundred Years' War.
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Joan of Arc
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The ___________________ was a plague that swept across Europe and Asia and killed millions of people.
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black death
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____________________ married Ferdinand of Aragon and their joined lands became the country of Spain.
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Isabella of Castile
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The Hundred Years' War was fought between _______________ and _____________ over the region of ___________________.
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English, French, Crécy
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The Black Death caused __________________ and a ________________________ in Europe.
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disease and declined the economy
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The struggle to take back the Iberian Peninsula was called the ________________.
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Reconquista
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