Ap World History Study Flashcards
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| 3375979940 | Feudalism | System of rule by king, people lived under a rigid class system | 0 | |
| 3375982514 | Manor | A village controlled by the local lord | 1 | |
| 3376003699 | Serfs | Lowest class in a feudal society | 2 | |
| 3376005302 | Chivalry | code that dictated the knight's behavior | 3 | |
| 3376008971 | Carolingians | Line of Frankish who reunited much of what had been the Roman Empire | 4 | |
| 3376010908 | Charlemagne | Greatest of the Carolingian rulers, first Holy Roman Emperor | 5 | |
| 3376013088 | Vikings | Seafaring people from Scandinavia who raided much of Western Europe. Thought to be the first Europeans to reach Americas | 6 | |
| 3376017989 | William the Conqueror | Conquered England establishing the line of Norman Kings | 7 | |
| 3376021056 | Battle of Hastings | Fought in A.D. 1066 when William overthrew the Anglo-Saxon Kings of England | 8 | |
| 3376042622 | Magna Carta | Signed by King John in A.D. 1215, it guaranteed certain rights | 9 | |
| 3376050460 | Parliament | English assembly made up of the House of the Lords and the House of Commons | 10 | |
| 3376052325 | Massacre of Jerusalem | Crusaders killed the entire Muslim populations of Jerusalem | 11 | |
| 3376055060 | Battle of The Horns of Hattin | Lead to the 3rd Crusade. Saladin's forces defeated those of JErusalem and stole the True Cross that Jesus was supposedly crucified on | 12 | |
| 3376060828 | Saladin | Muslim leader who would take back the Holy Lands | 13 | |
| 3376062056 | Richard 1 | Known as the Lionheart, failed to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims, but he signed a treaty with Saladin so that Christians could visit in peace | 14 | |
| 3376073440 | Children's Crusade | Crusade led by children, None of the children ever returned | 15 | |
| 3376076898 | Mongols | Conquered the middle east in the 1200's | 16 | |
| 3376078347 | Hulagu | Grandson of Genghiz Khan, He will eventually help Islam spread by taking it back to Asia | 17 | |
| 3376084551 | Cult of the Assassins | Muslim cult that killed and were wiped out by the Mongols | 18 | |
| 3376087312 | Ottoman Turks | Muslim empire that will control the Middle EAst and Persia after the fall of the Byzantine Empire | 19 | |
| 3376090099 | Dante | Political Italian author whose most famous work The Divine Comedy: Inferno | 20 | |
| 3376093859 | Chaucer | English author, Most famous work The Canterbury tales | 21 | |
| 3376096963 | Gothic | Architecture of the Middle Ages | 22 | |
| 3376097977 | Hundred years war | A war between England and France, A.D. 1337 to A.D. 1453, both countries fought for lands in northern France | 23 | |
| 3376101352 | Battle of Agincourt | The english used new methods of warfare to defeat the French, which made the traditional ways of fighting obsolete, ending the age of chivalry | 24 | |
| 3376105520 | Joan of Arce | French Farm girl who claimed to hear voices from Heaven. She led the FRench to several victories during the Hundred Years war, until she was burnt at the stake for Witchcraft | 25 | |
| 3376110706 | Wars of the Roses | A series of wars fought for the throne of England by The House of York and the House of Land caster. Eventually the Lancaster line won | 26 | |
| 3376116673 | Battle of Bosworth Field | Final battle of the Wars of the Roses King Richard 3 was killed | 27 | |
| 3376120274 | Ferdinand and Isabella | The king and queen who united Spain. They drove the Moors from Granada and financed Christopher Columbus | 28 |