Patterns Final:Events
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- Battle of Tours
- Franks defeat the Moors in 732
- Inquisition
- search for heretics (they hunt down the people who don't believe in the Catholic Church)
- Magna Carta
- 'Great Charter' made law supreme power
- Norman Conquest
- Edward the Confessor died-William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel with Normandy knights he won and became king
- Black Death
- plague swept through Europe in 1347
- Treaty of Nantes
- edict issued by Henry IV that guarenteed freedom of worship and political rights ended the religious wars
- Renaissance
- movement after Middle Ages, the 'rebirth'
- Reformation
- religious revolution split the church and created new churches
- Counter-Reformation
- attempt by Catholics to return church to emphasis spiritual matters
- Council of Trent
- meeting of Church leaders in the 1500s made to clearly define the beliefs of the Catholic Church for the Counter-Reformation
- Scientific Revolution
- transformation of thinking observation, experimentation, and questioning of traditional explainations
- Enlightenment
- period in 1700s when philosophers apply scientific method and use reason
- Crusades
- expeditions by Christias to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims
- Industrial Revolution
- period of the 1700s where power driven machines began to do much of the work people used to do by hand