Middle ages- Renaissance
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- King John of England
- King who loss territory to France
- Battle of tours
- European armies defeat Muslim armies and stop the spread of Islam in Europe
- Gutenberg
- Invented the first European Printing Press
- Charlemagne
- the king who was crowned emperor of the holy roman empire in 800 A.D.
- Martin Luther
- German monk who was one of the most important critics of the Catholic church
- ferdinand & isabella
- monarch of christian spain
- Dante
- Italian poet, wrote the Divide Comedy, this was the most important piece of literature
- Chaucer
- poet who follows a band of pilgrims traveling to thomas becket's tomb
- Crusades
- a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims
- Huns
- Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome
- Code of Chilvary
- manual based on code of conduct
- Great Schism
- A period of division within the Catholic Church in which there was a pope and an antipope
- Thomas Aquinas
- (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology
- William the conqueror
- Duke of Normandy at age 7, illigamate, heir to the throne, crowned on Christmas 1066, won battle of hasting
- Sacraments
- Sacred rituals of the Roman Catholic Church
- Franks
- group of Germanic people who rose to prominence under the leadership of King Clovis
- Pope
- highest official of the Roman Catholic Church
- Castiglione
- author of The Book of the Courtier which offered "how-to" advice to a member of the court of the Renaissance
- Joan of Arc
- a person who led the french army in battle against england.
- Thomas More
- Archbishop of Canterbury who was beheaded for refusing to take an oath of Supremacy
- Magna Carta
- This document, signed by King John of Endland in 1215, is the cornerstone of English justice and law. It declared that the king and government were bound by the same laws as other citizens of England. It contained the antecedents of the ideas of due process and the right to a fair and speedy trial that are included in the protection offered by the U.S. Bill of Rights
- Knight
- A man who received honor and land in exchange for serving a lord as a soldier.
- Vikings
- from Scandinavia. non-christian invaders from the North
- Henry viii
- son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547
- Guild
- A medieval organization of crafts workers or trades people.
- Roger Bacon
- great medieval scientist; English monk and philosopher, said thinkers were neglectign science; he predicted boats w/out oars, airplanes
- Bubonic Plague
- What disease ravaged Europe during the later half of the Middle Ages?
- Machiavelli
- "The Prince", exalts the supreme power of the gov. (prince) over the people, since the people are naturally selfish
- Cervantes
- Spanish author who wrote Don Quixote a novel that took a romantic view of the middle ages